It would appear that a tornado hit the Townsville suburb of Vincent. Even the Townsville AWS recorded gusts to 111 km/h at 5.07AM EST. Possibly a waterspout came ashore though it’s caused significant damage.
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Michael,
This definitely looks tornadic given the localisation and abrupt nature of the damage and corrugated iron wrapped around branches etc. Shows much chaos.
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara