Shock update after child was struck by lightning and left fighting for life during wild storms in southeast Queensland

A second person has been stuck by lightning after wild weather battered southeast Queensland and left a ten-year-old girl fighting for life. 

Paramedics rushed a man to the Gold Coast University Hospital after he was struck by lightning at a home in the city's north after 4pm on Saturday.

The man, aged in his 60s, is in a stable condition after being hit at Biggera Waters on the northern Gold Coast. 

Emergency services said the man was alert and speaking when they arrived. 

It comes after a ten-year-old girl was struck by lightning at a private property on Clarkes Road in Beerwah, on the Sunshine Coast, at about 2.30pm the same day.

Emergency services rushed the girl to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a critical condition where she remains.

Residents said the effects of the storm were not as severe as what was experienced on Friday night.

'It just really started to rain, the wind went crazy,' Wilson Timbers general manager Caleb Woolridge told 9News.

It comes as record-breaking damaging winds, large hail and heavy rain wreaked havoc across Queensland's southeast. 

The Bureau of Meteorology issued several severe weather warnings since the storms began moving over the region on Friday.

An alert at 3.20pm on Saturday warned Ipswich, Logan, Scenic Rim, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Brisbane City, Moreton Bay and Gympie council areas could see severe thunderstorms, damaging wind, hail, heavy rain and flash flooding.

Hail stones four centimetres large fell over Beaudesert, to the west of the Gold Coast, at about 4pm.

It follows freak storms on Friday night which caused widespread damage across the region.

BOM senior meteorologist Shane Kennedy said winds recorded in Archerfield, south Brisbane, were the strongest recorded in more than 75 years.

'169km/h in Archerfield was a record from 143km/h back in 1946,' he said.

'That's the kind of thing we only see every few years or so.'

The storms on Friday claimed the life of a 30-year-old man who was discovered unconscious near fallen powerlines in Murrarie.

He was found by emergency services at about 5pm following calls from the public and was declared dead at the scene.

SES volunteers have responded to upwards of 180 distress calls since Friday afternoon and more than 9,500 properties have lost power.

'Energex received over 250 reports of powerlines down through those storms yesterday and most of that was caused by things like trees, roofing iron, other debris being blown or falling onto those power lines,' Rob Stork from Energex told the ABC.

'So it has really caused some extensive damage, which is going to take some time to repair.

'Our crews have been hard at it overnight, and certainly made some good gains, but [there's] a lot more work to be done today.'

Meanwhile, further north, ex-tropical cyclone Jasper is slowly moving into the Gulf of Carpenteria.

One weather guru has warned Australians in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland they are not yet out of the woods, with a chance the system could 'reintensify' and remerge as another cyclone.

BOM senior meteorologist Angus Hines delivered the alarming news in a weather update from Saturday afternoon, warning the remnants of Jasper could soon return with force.

'The risk of re intensification does increase,' he said.

'We have a moderate chance that Jasper will turn back into a tropical cyclone, through the second half of the next week, through Wednesday until Friday.

'If it does so, there are a number of paths that the system could take.

'It may affect parts of the Top End of the Northern Territory or it could even double back and affect Far North Queensland through the second half of next week and into next weekend.'

The Jasper system will likely be a tropical low as it moves away from the Cape York region of Far North Queensland and enters the warms waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria from Sunday through to Tuesday.