Tropical Storm Bertha made a second landfall near the Texas-Louisiana state line on Thursday, adding another coastal hit to a storm that had already brushed Louisiana a day earlier. Russ Bynum reported that Bertha’s center came onshore Thursday afternoon about 75 miles northeast of Galveston, Texas.
The National Hurricane Center said Bertha should weaken rapidly over land, but it was still warning of some storm surge along the immediate coast and isolated flash flooding. That mix of fading winds and lingering water threat is why coastal readers are watching Bertha Tracker Houston now: the wind can drop fast, while the water keeps moving.
Bertha formed Monday in the Gulf of Mexico south of Florida and became the second named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. It first made landfall Wednesday as it grazed the Louisiana coast southwest of New Orleans, then reached its second landfall Thursday near the state line after ending its slow crawl across the U.S. Gulf Coast.
No deaths or significant damage had been reported since the storm formed, which limits the immediate toll even as it keeps forecasters focused on the shoreline. The unanswered question is not where Bertha is headed next in the broad sense; it is how much more rain and nuisance flooding it can squeeze out before the storm weakens enough to stop feeding the coast.
