Farmers and residents in South-West Queensland are getting hammered by torrential rain which they didn't know was coming because there is no rain radar in the area.

Murweh Mayor Shaun Radnedge told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "We've been advocating for the last six years that I've been involved, to the federal government of putting a rain radar in the western part of Queensland."

"Now, the closest radar is Alice Springs, you have one in Mount Isa, one in Longreach and one in Charleville."

"These areas that are getting impacted at the moment had no warning."

"For those graveyards that we talk about and it's always cattle and sheep out in those areas, they're going to have huge stock losses because they've never had time to shift their stock," Mr. Radnedge said.

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