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The State Emergency Service (SES) experienced a busy night in the Hunter and on the central coast but the number of calls-outs has dropped off in the Illawarra.

A heavy weather front continues to dominate the coast, with the Bureau of Meteorology issuing a severe weather warning with very heavy surf for the Illawarra.

In the 24 hours to 9:00am Friday, Fig Tree received 74 millimetres of rain, Bellambi 71mm and Scarborough 62mm.

Grant McClory from the SES says localised flooding is still occurring and houses are experiencing rain damage.

"Total tasks since Tuesday lunchtime add up to only around 80 to 90 tasks," he said.

"Half of those, a bit over half, for roof damage, roofing issues with water coming in and another about a quarter of that is for trees down."

Mr McClory says, west of Kiama, an amber alert was issued on Thursday night for the Jerrara Dam, with nine properties potentially affected.

"It just means you are getting a heightened level of inspection to make sure the integrity of the dam is fine and the people downstream will be safe," he said.

At Belmore Basin, marine authorities dealt with a yacht that dragged its mooring on Friday morning and another vessel that broke its mooring on Thursday morning due to the huge surf conditions.

The wet weather continues to impact local roads and rail services.