The wind speed picked up in the afternoon and by 7.20pm, the Bureau of Meteorology had recorded gusts of 63km/h at Bathurst Airport.

The winds left trees down across roads, parks and a house on Gilmour Street.

Kym Sadler said she had no idea a tree in her backyard had fallen until she heard a knock at her door.

“It was only when the next-door neighbour knocked on my door this morning [Friday] and asked if I knew a tree had fallen from my backyard,” she said.

The huge tree at the rear of Ms Sadler’s home had fallen onto her neighbour’s house.

“It’s damaged the boundary fence and the pool fence,” she said of the damage she could see from her property.

Bathurst State Emergency Service (SES) unit controller Jessie Davidson said volunteer crews received multiple call outs on Thursday night and Friday morning.

“All the jobs that came though were fairly spread out [across Bathurst] and mostly trees down,” she said.

The first call came through at 7pm.

“We got called to a fallen tree on Sofala Road, it had blocked the road to traffic,” Ms Davidson said.

Another call was to a tree that had fallen across the Mitchell Highway near The Rocks which had blocked the eastbound lane.

“We also got called to Limekilns Road where a tree had blocked both lanes,” Ms Davidson said.

SES crews were also called to a tree down at Forest Grove on Friday morning.

Also damaged in the wind storm was a mature English Elm in Morse Park.

“A large section of an English Elm tree, adjacent to Kendall Avenue within Alan Morse Park, was brought down by strong winds on Thursday night,” Bathurst Regional Council recreation manager Mark Kimbel said.

“Council staff inspected the tree on Friday morning to determine its structural integrity.

“In addition to the extent of damage sustained by the wind storm, significant rot and decay has been identified throughout the remainder of the tree, resulting in the tree being classified as an extreme safety hazard.”

The tree will now be removed in the interests of public safety.

“As with all tree removal works, council will program a replacement tree to be planted,” Mr Kimble said.