The NSW SES has responded to more than 6,000 incidents over the past three days. Photo: ABC News / Supplied / Ian Barnes
The New South Wales State Emergency Service (NSW SES) has responded to 2825 incidents in the past 24 hours, the vast majority across Greater Sydney, as storms and wild weather continues to lash across the state.
According to the state's emergency service, there had been 1988 incidents across Greater Sydney in the 24 hours to 5am on Saturday (3am NZT), largely centred around fallen and damaged properties due to strong winds.
The vast majority of the callouts in Sydney were due to damaging winds and fallen trees. Photo: ABC News / Supplied
The areas hit hardest, according to the NSW SES, are the Sutherland region, with 227 incidents, followed by Bankstown and Ku-ring-gai at 189 and 127 respectively.
Strong winds also a saw a vinyl sheet of the Sydney Cricket Ground's roofing fall into the stands during a Big Bash League match.
"We did have some injuries as a result of trees falling on properties and vehicles overnight," said NSW SES spokesperson Andrew Edmunds, adding there were reports of people being trapped and injured.
"And also at Hyde Park in Sydney yesterday afternoon, there were two people treated for minor injuries and taken to hospital after a tree fell on them in the park."
NSW SES' Andrew Edmunds said there had been some reports of injuries over the last 24 hours. Photo: Supplied / ABC News
Heavy rain sees evacuation advise north of Sydney
Heavy rain and winds have also hit the state's Hunter and Mid North Coast regions, with 673 incidents reported by the NSW SES, including two flood rescues in Bulahdelah.
Tens of thousands are currently without power across the state due to this latest wave of storms. Photo: Supplied / ABC News
According to the Bureau of Meterology, 50 to 150 millimetres of rain has been recorded in the area between Coffs Harbour and Newcastle, with isolated falls of up to 250 millimetres around the Barrington tops.
The rainfall resulted in an Amber Alert being placed on Chichester Dam overnight, located 80 kilometres north of Newcastle, leading to evacuation advice for the Ferndale Caravan Park at 1am this morning (3am NZT).
"Residents downstream of that dam been advised to prepare to evacuate this morning. There's also a watch and act warning in place at Bulahdelah and Dungog advising people not to enter flood water," Edmunds said.
"Later today, we will see some caravan parks at Laurieton likely advised to prepare to evacuate due to rising flood water that will combine with a high tide.
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The NSW SES has also said minor flooding is expected to impact other parts of the state, including the Orara river, Coffs Coast, Hastings river as well as the Manning and Gloucester rivers.
The Bureau of Meterology has issued a minor flood warnings for the Myall river and Paterson river, and a moderate flood warning for the Williams river.
Tens of thousands still without power
These incidents mark the third day of extreme weather for the state, with the NSW SES having now responded to 6598 incidents across the state.
As a result, tens of thousands across the state have been without power. On Saturday morning, Ausgrid said hundreds of thousands in NSW have experienced a loss of power since Wednesday.
Ausgrid added that there were currently around 43,000 between Sydney and the Hunter region still experiencing no power.
Endeavour Energy added that thousands across Greater Western Sydney, the Blue Mountains and Illawarra too have faced power issues since Wednesday, with 6741 currently without power as of this morning.
Tens of thousands are currently without power across the state due to this latest wave of storms. Photo: Supplied / ABC News
Mr Edmunds said it was expected that the wind will ease at around 11am on Saturday (1pm NZT), but that heavy rain will continue throughout the day.
"We could see some scattered showers and storms on Sunday, but hopefully conditions will improve early next week."
- ABC News
