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Tropical Storm Bertha brushes past SW Louisiana coast on the way to Texas

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Minor coastal flooding appeared to be the lone impact from Tropical Storm Bertha at it hugged the Louisiana coastline Thursday morning en route to a second landfall in Southeast Texas. Since its landfall Wednesday afternoon in St. Bernard Parish, Bertha’s sustained winds have stayed at 45 mph. As of 7 a.m. Thursday, the National Weather […]

State Emergency Operations Center activates as Tropical Storm Bertha approaches Louisiana
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State Emergency Operations Center activates as Tropical Storm Bertha approaches Louisiana

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) is initiating 24-hour operations at the State Emergency Operations Center as Tropical Storm Bertha tracks westward. The National Weather Service has issued a Tropical Storm Warning and a Tropical Storm Watch across parts of Louisiana, with potential impacts including minor to moderate storm surge flooding, heavy rainfall and tropical-storm-force winds.