General News
4 December, 2025
Nevertire hit hard by storm
Short, sharp, and across a relatively-narrow geographical band thought it was, Nevertire, unfortunately, didn’t miss last Wednesday’s (November 26) violent storm cell.
By David Dixon
The community 20km south-west of Warren, was hit with wind gusts of up to 120 km/h –rated as “hurricane strength” on the universal Beaufort Scale – causing significant damage, including lifting entire roofs off half a dozen local properties.
Warren Shire Council crews spent late last week helping clear the debris, which included roof and solar panels twisted around trees across local parks and paddocks.
“We were out there flat-out busy for two days helping with anything in the public realm, obviously work on private properties, is an issue for insurance companies,” Warren Shire Council mayor, Greg Whitely told the Warren and Nyngan Weekly.
“We had a crew out there, helping where we could, with compliments also to Essential Energy, for rebuilding power lines, they had poles knocked out… some people had no power for 36 hours,” he added.
The damage, he emphasised, was not just a few panels of corrugated iron being flung off fences and roof tops, with NSW State Emergency Service crews and council workers beginning clearing debris on the Thursday.
“We had major damage to six houses and collateral damage to others from the flying material. The café also had its roof taken-off, and one very large storage shed, was also destroyed,” mayor Whiteley revealed.
Although Nevertire caught the brunt of the storm head-on, largely sparing other population centres in the west, there was some good news for the community.
“We were very, very lucky there were no serious injuries, considering the amount of damage there was.
“At Warren it was not too bad, we largely missed-out, but some properties in Warren shire, west and south of Nevertire, they copped a real hammering,” mayor Whiteley explained.
The community has been on the end of some bad weather luck in recent times, only just recovering from a similar storm front that hit the town earlier in the year. Eventually running through the Central Tablelands and hitting Sydney and the Hunter Valley, the storm – created by a hot air mass combining with a cold front – originated west of the 135-population village at around noon, before moving east.
Similar property damage, however, did occur in the nearby centres of Narromine, Wongarbon, and Dubbo.
Orange in the Central Tablelands was also hit hard by the storm, with winds of more than 100 km/h tearing through the Colour City, bringing down trees and damaging vehicles. The most serious impact was on a man in his 20s, who suffered multiple injuries when a tree fell on his car during the height of the storm that hit just after midday; in which wind gusts touching 110 km/h were recorded.
With 1145 total incidents reported statewide to the SES from the storm, Sydney led the list with 622 reports of damage, followed by the western zone with more than 270.
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