Tropical Storm Bertha
May 27, 2020 to May 28, 2020Peak 52 mph1005 mb
Tropical Storm Bertha passed within 50 miles of 5 counties in SC. It was strongest near Beaufort County, SC, as a tropical storm on May 27, 2020.
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Tropical Storm Bertha · 2020
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
From space
Tropical Storm Bertha on May 26, 2020, about 19 hours before landfall in Charleston County, SC.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- 52 mph, 45 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 1005 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 5
- SC
- Counties within 100 miles
- 11
- GA, SC
- Landfalls recorded
- 1
- Anywhere on the track
Every county it passed
Closest approach to each county boundary, with the storm’s strength at that moment.
| Berkeley County | SC | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Charleston County | SC | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Georgetown County | SC | 13.4 | Tropical storm |
| Dorchester County | SC | 19.9 | Tropical storm |
| Colleton County | SC | 33.4 | Tropical storm |
| Beaufort County | SC | 53.7 | Tropical storm |
| Hampton County | SC | 65.8 | Tropical storm |
| Jasper County | SC | 68.8 | Tropical storm |
| Allendale County | SC | 70.6 | Tropical storm |
| Chatham County | GA | 88.0 | Tropical storm |
| Effingham County | GA | 91.4 | Tropical storm |
Distances are measured from hourly positions interpolated between the National Hurricane Center’s six-hourly fixes to each county boundary. Strength is shown only where the storm was still tropical. Methodology.
National Hurricane Center HURDAT2. Storm totals cover the Atlantic and Northeast and Central Pacific basins.