AceWeatherDesk – A summer storm has pummelled WA’s Wheatbelt and eastern parts of Perth on a 41 degree day, with residents reporting large hailstones and heavy rain.

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Meanwhile, two bushfires flared up in the Wheatbelt, both triggering emergency warnings for a brief period of time on Tuesday afternoon.

A short and sharp downpour caused flash flooding across eastern parts of the metropolitan area, tearing down trees and damaging roofs.

A tree branch fell through the home of Mundaring resident Peter Ketteridge, who described the frantic minutes as the storm passed through his suburb.

“It was 41 degrees, I was sitting outside, and within the space of about five minutes it dropped down to mid-20s and the hail started, rain was intense, a lot of water fell very quickly,” he said.

A lot of rain, hail, thunder, lightning … half the marri tree came down on top of the roof. Luckily no one was inside at the time.

“I’d just been talking to the tree lopper about removing that particular tree … actually have to do it now because it’s unbalanced.”

“ It’s back to how it was before the storm came, it was just amazing how quickly it changed, the temperature drop was just incredible.”

Perth was in the grip of a three-day heatwave, with the temperature topping out at 41 degrees Celsius.

The Bureau of Meteorology has now cancelled an earlier severe thunderstorm warning for Perth, but one remains in place for the Great Southern, Central Wheatbelt and Goldfields districts.

Power was cut out to about 27,000 homes across the Wheatbelt and Perth metropolitan area at the peak of the storm cell.

In many areas, Western Power estimates services will not be restored until midday on Wednesday.

Western Power said the weather system was so severe it was too dangerous to send crews out, but they hoped to once it passed to get an estimate on when they could return power to homes.

Lake Chittering saw 28mm of rain fall in just 30 minutes just after midday, while in Millendon, about 30km north-east of Perth, a 94kph wind gust was recorded just before 1pm.

Aran Williams shared with the ABC a photo of his parents house in Bindoon.

“Lost the patio roof and lifted the main house roof on the western side. All rooms now leaking,” he said.

Fresh bushfire alerts

Lightning strikes from the severe thunderstorm had authorities on high alert and a new bushfire emergency alert was issued for the Wheatbelt town of Wongan Hills.

A large smoke plume was seen billowing from a parcel of land just north of the town just before 1pm.

Firefighters managed to control the blaze quickly and it has now been downgraded to an advice.

A fire that started on Friday near Gingin and went on to destroy two homes also briefly flared up to an emergency level on Tuesday afternoon.

That bushfire also gutted the site of a proposed $100 million luxury motorsport country club north of Perth.

A third fire forced the closure of Albany Highway east of the town of Boddington on Tuesday afternoon.

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