TROPICAL STORM BERTHA

NWS ^ | 4 August 2002 | NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL

[Technocrat]

Better watch out for that stuff off the Carolina coast - it's heading south and starting to look nasty....

[alnick]

Yes, Camille was far worse. I was about an hour away from Camille's devestation, and all we experienced was a thunderstorm. It's amazing.

I was right off of Franklin Avenue for Betsy. Looks like we were in the same area for that storm. I remember the neighbors' dog was on the roof of their house.

I hope to never experience anything like that again.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Where do I apply to get the job of "naming hurricanes"?

I would name them more appropriately, after some of the monster children I have known:

Blake

Hunter

Stetson (yes, really)

Cameron

Tyler

Ashley

Jerrica

Kaylee

Cindy (lol)

[ClearBlueSky]

OMG- New Orleans should evacuate NOW! :-P
In fact, we should evacuate in May and not come back until October!

[Eagle Eye]

Cna you see me? I'm under all that green waving at you.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nice observation about the SC low pressure system.....It's (slowly) circulating too.

[Jn316]

"Ran into a rain storm,"

Anyone anyone?

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Well - we can hope it just dissipates - and what we are seeing now is an attempt to form that won't succeed....but, I sorta think otherwise.

Here's the latest picture of Bertha:

It's big!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

And here is that "disturbance" off the coast of SC - which looks to me like the next Tropical storm in the making - but is nothing officially right now - just being "investigated":

(Big again - last one of these - good website over HERE.)

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Ha ha! So, that's where the Bertha Butt reference in the old 45 record called Convention '72 by the group The Delegates came from!

[Cagey]

Stetson? I presume they named him/her after the hat company? A Yankee version would be Susquehana.

[rwfromkansas]

I think that is a Tropical Depression.....if the recon info doesn't show it, I will be wrong though.....lol.

[rwfromkansas]

The blob off the SC coast is now officially as tropical depression and may strengthen to a tropical storm.

Info:

000
WTNT33 KNHC 052031
TCPAT3
BULLETIN
TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE ADVISORY NUMBER 1
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
5 PM EDT MON AUG 05 2002

...TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE FORMS SOUTHEAST OF THE CAROLINAS...
NO IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LAND...

AT 5 PM EDT...2100Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 31.9 NORTH...LONGITUDE 76.9 WEST OR
ABOUT 155 MILES...250 KM...SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF WILMINGTON NORTH
CAROLINA.

THE DEPRESSION IS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-SOUTHEAST NEAR 6 MPH
... 9 KM/HR...AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
FOR THE NEXT 24 HR.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 35 MPH... 55 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. SOME STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS...
AND THE DEPRESSION COULD BECOME A TROPICAL STORM LATER TONIGHT
OR TUESDAY.

THE MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE JUST REPORTED BY AN AIR FORCE
RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT IS 1008 MB...29.77 INCHES.

REPEATING THE 5 PM EDT POSITION...31.9 N... 76.9 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...EAST-SOUTHEAST NEAR 6 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS... 35 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1008 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL
HURRICANE CENTER AT 11 PM EDT.

FORECASTER BEVEN

[rwfromkansas]