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Updated astatine 10:15 a.m. connected Tuesday, July 21, 2026.
Tropical Storm Bertha is producing immoderate winds gusting adjacent hurricane force, but they are confined to a robust thunderstorm compartment adjacent the halfway of rotation good offshore of the Florida Panhandle.
Dry aerial has penetrated the circulation since the get-go and continues to beryllium an inhibiting factor. In addition, the upper-level winds implicit the Gulf are hostile to melodramatic development.
TRACK TROPICAL STORM BERTHA: LIVE RADAR, FORECAST CONE, FLOOD THREAT, WIND SPEED AND WARNINGS
Tuesday greeting radar of Tropical Storm Bertha
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Bertha mightiness intensify a spot more, but the beardown precocious winds are forecast to summation arsenic it tracks successful the absorption of southeastern Louisiana, truthful the strength is apt to highest soon, and the strongest winds volition enactment offshore. The National Hurricane Center's forecast shows dilatory weakening opening tomorrow.
Some outer bands containing gusty tropical downpours are arcing implicit the seashore and adjacent inland areas. There is immoderate imaginable for flash flooding successful isolated spots. But astir of the dense rainfall volition stay offshore.
TROPICAL STORM BERTHA STRENGTHENS, THREATENS GULF COAST WITH HEAVY RAIN, STORM SURGE AND SQUALLS
Tropical Storm Bertha forecast cone
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Bertha's main effect volition beryllium astatine the coast. The persistent and beardown winds connected the backside of the circulation volition propulsion Gulf h2o supra the mean tide levels. A h2o emergence of 2 to 4 feet supra mean precocious tide is possible, particularly successful the low-lying areas of confederate Alabama, Mississippi, and southeastern Louisiana.
In addition, the surf volition beryllium unsafe with ample waves and rip currents likely. Pay attraction to alerts.
TIMELINE: WHEN YOU WILL SEE FIRST IMPACTS OF TROPICAL STORM BERTHA IN THE SOUTHEAST
Tropical Storm Bertha's rainfall forecast
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There's precocious assurance that Bertha's halfway volition way westbound offshore of the occidental Florida Panhandle and Alabama. As the strategy nears Mississippi and Alabama precocious connected Wednesday, the forecast is little certain.
The astir reliable machine forecasts – some the statement of accepted models and the Google DeepMind exemplary – bespeak that the expanding precocious winds could rip the strategy apart, disconnecting the precocious circulation from the 1 we way astatine crushed level. In that case, the strategy would dice retired implicit oregon adjacent confederate Louisiana. But that's not 100%.
Different forecast models for Tropical Storm Bertha.
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Whether it's a weaker strategy oregon conscionable a remnant, tropical moisture with immoderate gusty winds could proceed westbound toward Texas. There is nary denotation of a beardown tempest impacting the Texas coast, however.
Poorly developed systems implicit the precise lukewarm Gulf h2o tin astonishment us, truthful everyone on the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle to Texas should enactment aware.
Tropical Storm Bertha
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Track errors for anemic systems are, connected average, 3 times arsenic ample arsenic they are for beardown hurricanes. When a strategy is moving dilatory similar this, it compounds the uncertainty. So enactment informed, conscionable successful case.
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