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By Gabe Hauari0% James Powel0% USA TODAY13%
7/20/2026, 1:03:14 PM
Topics: Tropical Storm Bertha
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Pessimism Bias, Negativity Bias, and Overconfidence Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 56.3% saturation with 152 hits. Analysis detected 453 faulty-reasoning hits from 270 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 40.1% and a BS Rank of 31% (15,300 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 69.90% of the article peer group.
A tropical depression that formed in the Gulf has now strengthened into Tropical Storm Bertha, according to the National Hurricane Center.
A NHC advisory issued the evening of July 20 stated that Bertha is located about 110 miles south of Panama City, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour.
It added that "additional strengthening is possible."
A tropical storm watch is in effect for a large chunk of the Gulf Coast, from the Ochlockonee River west to the Mississippi/Alabama border, according to the hurricane center.
A tropical storm watch means tropical storm conditions are possible in the next 24 to 48 hours.
The Center said that Bertha has been "drifting erratically" but the storm is expected to move to the northwest and west.
"On the forecast track, Bertha will move near or along the northern Gulf coast during the next several days," the advisory reads.
The NHC said the system is expected to produce rainfall totals of 2 to 4 inches, with locally higher totals around 8 inches, through Friday along the Gulf Coast and adjacent inland locations from western Florida to the Middle Texas coast, including southern portions of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
The rainfall may produce flash flooding, especially in urban areas.
Swells generated by the system are also expected to affect portions of the Gulf coast of Florida and are likely to spread westward during the week, the NHC said, with the swells likely to cause "life-threatening" surf and rip current conditions.
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