A Coonabarabran farming family has suffered extensive damage to their property as a result of hail impacting the community last week.

Various parts of the Western Plains experienced crazy weather last week, from strong winds to heavy rain and even sightings of hail in some areas, and, according to forecasts, more rain is on the way from the start of next week.

Warnings of last week's wild weather were released by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) on the afternoon of Wednesday 29 September across the whole region.

According to bureau forecaster David Wilke, last week's weather was considered a reasonably significant "storm outbreak", with LGAs in the Western Plains most impacted between Tuesday 28 September and Thursday 30 September.

"Up in Bourke, there were reports of hail 5-8cm in diameter which we classify as giant hail - there was also significant rainfall, with about 22mm in 15 minutes in some areas," Mr Wilke said.

"There were also 85km/h gusts which is really close to what we consider damaging winds at 90km/h.

"Elsewhere in the region, most areas got between 40-60mm of rain throughout that weather event."

Despite the broad warnings of severe hail across the Bourke shire, council Mayor Barry Hollman said the impacts in the town itself were minimal and he had received no reports of major damages from elsewhere.

A police officer who was based in the town that day said they had seen small power outages but hadn't even been aware of the hail until after it had already passed.

Images of hail on the road between the Bourke township and Enngonia circulated social media on Thursday morning, but licensee of the local Enngonia hotel Greg Oates said they only saw about 22mm of rain.

"We did see very intense winds and light hail - a lot of water ended up coming in the back - but apparently down Bourke-way, they had a lot more rain," he said.

"The power also went off for a few hours between here and Bourke."

Mr Wilke said it can be very difficult to forecast how severe a thunderstorm can be across different areas.

"When we put a warning out - which we did last week - we're usually quite broad about it because we're not able to determine to a high degree exactly where storms will form and move, that's just the nature of thunderstorm outbreaks," he said.

"It's certainly not uncommon to have some areas hit significantly by a storm and only a few kilometres away, people don't see much at all."

A snapped power pole east of Coonamble was just one casualty of strong winds seen by various parts of the Western Plains last week. Photo supplied.

Angela Gordon, who lives on a property just outside the Bourke township recorded strong winds and around 70mm of rain.

"Fortunately, the hail on our farm wasn't too bad and we are always grateful for rain," she said.

"The rain and wind did damage our barley crop a little, but we will still be able to harvest something."

On Thursday afternoon, however, Ms Gordon's sister Rebecca Pickette, who lives on a property around 12km east of Coonabarabran experienced the full wrath of the western hail.

"The storm built up to the north of us at around 4:45pm and I knew there were severe storm warnings issued for our area so I said to my husband Scott that I think we should put our vehicles in the shed," Ms Pickette said.

"It was really quite scary once the hail hit. We brought our pets inside and I felt so sorry for the livestock outside as they were running for cover. 

"We have never seen hail like it - they were golf ball size, some even bigger and the sound on our roof was frightening," she said.

Rebecca Pickette and her family were hit by "golf ball size" hail during last week's thunderstorms impacting large parts of the Western Plains. Photo supplied.

"The hail smashed my daughter Matilda's bedroom window and we have damage to some work vehicles that couldn't quite fit in our shed.

"The roof on our house and surrounding buildings were also damaged. Luckily the livestock were okay."

Ms Pickette said the storm probably only lasted for about 10 to 15 minutes, but she said even that was "definitely long enough".

Mr Wilke said weather for the remainder of the week was looking "reasonably dry" for the Western Plains before showers begin on Sunday and develop moving into next week.

"We're still monitoring things at the moment, but it's a pretty good bet you'll get another heavy amount of rain on Monday and Tuesday," he said.

"There is a chance you could see some thunderstorms, but it's looking more like heavy rain which means there's more of a chance of flooding as opposed to hail."