A Pilbara mining town has been battered by its second severe storm in the space of a week, with residents beginning a renewed clean-up.  

Rain and strong winds swept through the streets of Tom Price, 1,450 kilometres north of Perth, on Thursday afternoon.

It comes a week after another storm ripped up trees, smashed car windows and scattered debris all over the mining town.

Tom Price resident Kaili Rowe was at home when Thursday's storm hit.

"It was short, sharp and quite scary."

Just before the storm hit, Ms Rowe called her children inside.

"Lucky we did as the trampoline they were on got flipped upside down not long after making the call," she said.

"There'll be many kids asking Santa for a trampoline this Christmas with many of them being carried far away from their homes.

She said the storm was "sudden and unexpected", similar to the one that hit the week prior.

"There was already a lot of angst in town after last Wednesday's freak storm," she said.

"We are all so grateful nobody has been badly hurt but there is now very much a feeling of uncertainty among the residents."

The epicentre

The Tom Price Softball Centre suffered the worst of the wild weather, with its roof destroyed.

Shire of Ashburton councillor Matthew Lynch told ABC Regional Drive Thursday's storm was more concentrated than last week's storm.

"It was probably just as windy but more localised," he said.

"It was pretty much only one little part of town that copped it.

The remainder of the local softball season has been cancelled as a result of the damage.

Second clean up

Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) incident controller Dave Cowdell said volunteers had been working hard to assist residents.

"There's been some structural damage to some of the buildings in town [and] this was accelerated from last week's impact. So there still was a significant amount of debris around," he said.

 "Last night [SES] crews were out until late doing the priority jobs and the SES volunteers [and] bushfire volunteers, there were 13 of them last night, they'll be out again this afternoon as soon as they can."

First cyclone of the season

Thursday's wild weather cames as the first tropical cyclone of the season is born off the Western Australian Coast.

Tropical Cyclone Robyn reached category two intensity late on Thursday, but has since weakened.

BOM meteorologist Jessica Lingard said it should not be a concern.

"No need to worry about this one — it's currently sitting about 750km south-west of the Cocos Keeling Islands but it's going to turn itself towards the west and move out of the Australian region of responsibility," she said.

"It's currently a category one system, but it was a category two system earlier today, so it is already on that weakening trend."

Cocos Keeling Islands shire chief executive Frank Mills said the week's weather was "business as usual" for the tropical islands, with the system dissipating into "blue sky and sunshine" on Friday.

"We certainly had the south end of West Island closed off for two or three days and there was a lot of flooding on Home Island," he said.

Mr Mills noted, while clean-up efforts were already underway on the islands, things could have been worse than fallen palm fronds.

"[Home Island] had pumps continuously running, pumping water out of the housing [village]."

Mr Mills previously called for Commonwealth funding to better prepare the islands for weather emergencies and safeguard local infrastructure, which he said was growing more vulnerable with each cyclone season.

"It floods every time we get substantial rain."