Bertha has made its final landfall, with lingering gusty winds and locally heavy rain through Friday in coastal and Deep South Texas.

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Where Bertha is now

Bertha's center made its second and final landfall near the Gulf Coast border of Texas and Louisiana just before 1 p.m. CT Thursday, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph. It continues to weaken.

As has been the case through its life, most of its heavier rain and thunderstorms are still blown well southwest of its center by strong winds aloft.

That heavier rain is moving into coastal Texas generally south of Galveston.

Bertha's center will continue to head inland, then dissipate somewhere in central Texas.

Forecast impacts

Locally heavy rain may lead to some isolated flash flooding. It could also cause some temporary rises along already flooded stretches of the Frio and Nueces Rivers northwest of Corpus Christi.

However, we expect this heavy rain to stay south of recently flood-ravaged Central Texas.

Wave action in the Gulf will also be accompanied by rip currents, so it's probably best to stay out of the water at Gulf Coast beaches this week, even if the weather at the time looks okay.

Bertha's history

The National Hurricane Center issued its first advisory on T.D. Two late Sunday morning as it was centered south of Panama City, Florida.

A Hurricane Hunter mission found sustained winds of 40 mph Monday evening, making the system Tropical Storm Bertha – the second storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.

Bertha's winds peaked at 60 mph on Tuesday evening, before beginning its weakening trend.

Tropical Storm Bertha made its first landfall near the Biloxi Wildlife Management Area in St. Bernard Parish Wednesday afternoon, July 22.

A wind gust of 41 mph was reported on Dauphin Island, Alabama Wednesday afternoon. Some gusts to near 50 mph were clocked in Pensacola, Florida, Wednesday morning, and other gusts from 40 to 50 mph were clocked Tuesday in Apalachicola (46 mph) and Panama City (41 mph).

Generally, from 2 to 3 feet of coastal inundation was recorded by gauges from Pensacola, Florida, to the immediate Gulf Coast locations in southeast Louisiana.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.​