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Charleville in south-west Queensland has recorded 68.2mm of rain in one hour on Wednesday afternoon.

The Weather Bureau says it's a highly unlikely event, with only a two per cent chance of that amount of rain falling in Charleville in any given year. 

Murweh Shire mayor Shaun Radnedge said council crews were working to clear drains in town.

"That amount of rain in that short of time definitely causes problems with our drainage systems," he said. 

"We just need to be patient and we're expecting within the next two to three hours that water will dissipate through the drainage system and through the gully. 

"We'll see the localised flooding subside pretty quickly."

The total is more than the mean rainfall for the entire month of November in Charleville, 44.7mm. 

Nearby property gets 153mm

Lesdale, a property about 28 kilometres out of Charleville, recorded 153 mm in the space of two hours.

Property owners Bec and Russell Tickell said while some fences came down and there was damage to roads, they welcomed the rain.

"We call it lucky Lesdale," Ms Tickell said.

"Yesterday we could walk from one side of the house dam to the other, it was so dry, now it's overflowing.

""It's beautiful, it's unbelievable … big smiles here."

Ms Tickell said the kids were "having a ball" playing with their boogie boards in the mud.

Jenni Mazlin-Law, who lives across the road from Bradley’s Gully, which runs through town said it had been "very, very, torrential, heavy rain".

“The water has backed up in the creek and it has flooded all over the street and it’s come across the road, it’s come right up to the driveways and completely blocked the road.

“Once the heavy rain started this afternoon, it came up so fast.

"It’s not draining away as quick as we would like.”