Tropical Storm Bertha made its second landfall on the Gulf Coast on Thursday afternoon, coming ashore near the Texas-Louisiana state line, a day after initially making landfall in southeast Louisiana. The storm was packing 45 mph winds as it moved ashore near Lake Charles, Louisiana, and continued west across Texas.
Bertha is expected to move inland into Texas through Thursday evening and weaken, likely dissipating over Central Texas by Thursday night or Friday morning. The storm's heaviest precipitation was displaced to its south in the Gulf, but isolated flash flooding is possible along the Texas coastline from Corpus Christi to Port Lavaca. The Corpus Christi area could receive 1 to 3 inches of rain by Friday.
Bertha formed into a tropical storm on Sunday. It first made landfall around 3 p.m. ET on Wednesday in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, approximately 40 miles east of downtown New Orleans. After moving across the Louisiana coast, Bertha moved back into the Gulf of Mexico, where it regained some strength before its second landfall on Thursday.
Swells generated by Bertha will continue to spread westward along the northern Gulf Coast over the next few days, potentially causing life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.