Hurricane (Typhoon), Coastal Palm Beach
- When
- July 10, 9:00 AM EST to July 13, 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Coastal Palm Beach forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 26.648, -80.436 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hurricane in Florida, July 10 to 13, 1996
Hurricane Bertha, after reaching category three intensity north of Puerto Rico, weakened slightly then turned northward on July 10 about 300 miles offshore the southeast Florida coast. The direct effects of Bertha remained well offshore in the Atlantic, but a few swells moved into Palm Beach County coastal waters on July 10, and more frequent swells moved into Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade…
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
Hurricane Bertha, after reaching category three intensity north of Puerto Rico, weakened slightly then turned northward on July 10 about 300 miles offshore the southeast Florida coast. The direct effects of Bertha remained well offshore in the Atlantic, but a few swells moved into Palm Beach County coastal waters on July 10, and more frequent swells moved into Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade coastal sections July 11 through July 13, when Bertha was far to the northeast. In separate incidents, two persons drowned in rip currents generated by Bertha's swells along unguarded sections of Miami Beach on Saturday, July 13. The beach patrols in all three counties made dozens of rescues from rip currents during the period.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hurricane (typhoon). Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hurricane (Typhoon)
- A tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 64 knots (74 mph) or more, filed per forecast zone for its wind, and with separate events for its flooding, surge and tornadoes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hurricane in Florida, July 10 to 13, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, July 10, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, July 10, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 10, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 10, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, July 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 10, 1996
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 10, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 10, 1996
More
Every storm in Florida in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 1996The 1996 hurricane season
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5561826.