WARWICK residents were taken by surprise at the force of the storm unleashed on the city on Sunday afternoon.

As the storm subsided, residents emerged from their homes to take stock of the damage and begin the task of cleaning up.

Warwick resident Johno Felton noticed damage to a neighbouring property and went over to let the occupants know.

"A piece of the fibro just blew out," he said.

Mr Felton said many fences, particularly high, colourbond fences had also been damaged in the storm.

Neighbour Jessica McGregor said she was not aware of the damage to the house initially.

"I heard a good bang but couldn't tell it was from the roof, there was just so much noise," she said.

"We had water coming in through the louvres and under the doors.

"One of piece of the roof went through the fence and another piece speared into the groud."

SES volunteers arrived about 6pm to carry out emergency repairs, she said.

"It was lucky it was near the end of the storm it happened, so there was just the insulation that got wet," Mrs McGregor said.

On the other side of the crest, community radio station 89.3 Rainbow FM suffered a major setback with damage to their antena.

"We are running on a smaller, back-up antenna so we are reaching a much smaller area," vice president Chris Maddock said.

"The antenna was only put in on January 6 and cost $13,000.

"This is the second storm to damage it. We've already spent $2,500 to get an estimate of costs for the first incident then this happened."

Mr Maddock said the costs could run as high as $9,000 depending on the extent of the damage.

A few doors down saw a 23-year-old tree uprooted, with resident Jan Fahey saying she felt very lucky nothing but the garden had been damaged.

"I just couldn't believe it," Mrs Fahey said.

"I was watching the storm, waiting for it to go through the windows.

"I thought the whole roof was going to give way."

Mrs Fahey said she had no idea the tree had fallen until after the storm subsided.

"Council came and cleaned up. It was a big job," she said.

Southern Downs Regional Council's director engineering services Peter See said that Council staff were undertaking clean-up works in parks and public land.

Council's street sweepers were also cleaning up leaf litter on the streets from Sunday's storm.