List of storms named Bertha
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The name Bertha has been used for eleven tropical cyclones worldwide: nine in the North Atlantic Ocean and one each in the South-West Indian Ocean and the Australian region.
In the Atlantic Ocean:
Tropical Storm Bertha (1957), a moderate tropical storm that threatened areas devastated by Hurricane Audrey two months earlier, but did not become a hurricane and caused only minor damage
Tropical Storm Bertha (1984), a minimal tropical storm that formed in the mid-Atlantic and never threatened land
Hurricane Bertha (1990), a Category 1 Hurricane that moved north, parallel to the east coast of the United States before dissipating over Nova Scotia leaving nine dead, including six on a ship sunk by the storm
Hurricane Bertha (1996), a Category 3 hurricane that crossed the Leeward Islands and passed near Puerto Rico, later making landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $270 million in damage to the United States and resulted in many indirect deaths
Tropical Storm Bertha (2002), a minimal tropical storm that formed only two hours before landfall in Louisiana, dissipated, exited back into the Gulf of Mexico, striking South Texas as a Tropical Depression. Bertha caused minimal damage, and one person drowned
Hurricane Bertha (2008), a long-lived Category 3 hurricane
Hurricane Bertha (2014), a Category 1 hurricane that affected the Antilles and the East Coast of the United States, and whose remnants affected Western Europe
Tropical Storm Bertha (2020), a pre-season tropical storm that formed only an hour before making landfall in South Carolina
Tropical Storm Bertha (2026), a moderately strong and erratic tropical storm that paralleled the Gulf Coast of the United States before making landfall in Louisiana and Texas.
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