Tropical Storm Bertha intensified over the northern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was located at latitude 29.3\u00b0N and longitude 86.3\u00b0W which put the center about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Pensacola, Florida.\u00a0 Bertha was moving toward the north-northwest at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 995 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from the Bay County\/Gulf County Line in Florida to the Terrebone Parish\/Lafourche Parish Line in Louisiana.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for New Orleans.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Watches are in effect for Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for the portion of the coast from the Terrebonne Parish\/Lafourche Parish Line to the Vermilion Parish\/Cameron Parish Line in Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Bertha intensified on Tuesday morning in spite of strong northeasterly winds in the upper troposphere.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear, but the wind shear was not strong enough to prevent intensification\u00a0 The vertical wind shear did affect the structure of Bertha’s circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the southern half of Tropical Storm Bertha.\u00a0 Bands in the northern half of Bertha’s circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Bertha generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the south and west of the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n The strongest winds were occurring in the southeastern part of Tropical Storm Bertha.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 90 miles (145 km) in the southern part of Bertha’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 45 miles (75 km) in the northern side of Tropical Storm Bertha.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Bertha will move through an environment that will be marginally favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Bertha will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under southeastern part of an upper level ridge that is centered over the South Central U.S.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce northeasterly winds that will blow across the top of Bertha\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear. The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the wind shear may not be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Bertha could intensify a little more during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 However,if the northeasterly winds in the upper levels get any stronger, then Bertha will start to weaken.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Bertha will move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is over the southern Mississippi River Valley.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Bertha slowly toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Bertha will move slowly toward southeastern Louisiana.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Bertha will bring gusty winds to the central Gulf Coast.\u00a0 Since the strongest winds are in the southeastern part of Bertha’s circulation, those winds will remain over the Gulf of Mexico during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Bands on the northern side of Tropical Storm Bertha could drop locally heavy rain over parts of Northwest Florida, southern Alabama, southern Mississippi, and southern Louisiana.\u00a0 Bertha could also cause a storm surge of up to 4 feet (1 meter) along parts of the coast of southeastern Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Bertha intensified over the northern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was located at latitude 29.3\u00b0N and longitude 86.3\u00b0W which put the center about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Pensacola, Florida.\u00a0 Bertha was moving toward the north-northwest at 3 m.p.h. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[378,377,384,3738,2026,4182,51,4175,4180,2269,1213,113,493,716,1215,4183,4179,2025,4181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24749,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748\/revisions\/24749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}