DESTRUCTIVE winds and heavy rainfall is expected to hit the North-West interior tonight and into Saturday as a low pressure system continues its path in North Queensland.
The weather system, which brought heavy rain and flooding to the Townsville region this week is now lying over Mount Isa and Cloncurry.
The Bureau of Meteorology said the system was expected to move slowly west in the district over the next 24 hours, bringing areas of heavy rainfall which may lead to flash flooding tonight and tomorrow.
Damaging winds may occur near the low and isolated locally destructive winds are possible with thunderstorms.
At 5pm, the heaviest rainfall was occurring over the northwestern interior between Mount Isa and Richmond, with six hour rainfall totals over 90mm possible.
The BOM forecast said scattered 24-hour rainfall totals between 75mm to 150mm were likely, with isolated falls up to 300mm possible.
Affected areas may include Winton, Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Richmond, Julia Creek, Duchess, Kamilaroi Station, Augustus Downs Station, Mckinlay, Iffley, Cloney's Creek and Middleton.
Julia Creek recorded 51mm since 9am Friday and Mckinlay Mayor Belinda Murphy said it was a welcome relief for those receiving rain, but many others were missing out.
It comes as Townsville and surrounds begin to clear up after the weather event, which brought more than 350mm of rain to the region on Wednesday and Thursday.
Suburbs north of the city received the most, with Bluewater recording over 700mm in the past week.
The rain brought welcome relief to the parched city, with the Ross River Dam rising to 83 per cent at 2pm today. It was just 15 per cent on Monday and the town remains on Level 3 water restrictions.
The Bruce Highway, which had been closed south of Townsville due to water and debris over the road at the Haughton River Bridge and Sandy Corner, was opened to all traffic about 10.15am on Friday.
Other roads in the region, remained cut, with rivers slow to drop.
Debris from the swollen rivers was flushed into Cleveland Bay and washed ashore at Rowes Bay this morning, which council crews and residents started their own clean ups.
In Giru, which was inundated after the Haughton River peaked at 3.10m, the highest level on record and since Cyclone Yasi in February 2011, the clean-up was greater after 24 hours underwater.
But locals are well attuned to flooding and there was no major damage.
