S. Virgin Islands on August 2, 2014.
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.
The episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.
Tropical Storm Bertha affected the U.S. Virgin Islands on August 2, 2014.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Juan, PR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 4:40 AM AST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
440 AM AST SAT AUG 2 2014
.SYNOPSIS...TS BERTHA EXPECTED TO PASS NEAR CABO ROJO LATE TODAY.
UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD THROUGH TUE. TUTT
EXPECTED TO BECOME DOMINANT WX FEATURE MID WEEK ON.
&&
.DISCUSSION...BERTHA WILL CONTINUE TO RACE WNW AROUND 22 MPH NEXT
12 HRS PASSING NEAR CABO ROJO LATE TODAY. STILL LOOKS LIKE A 3-6
HR PERIOD OF STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS OVR PR WITH THE HIGHEST
RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES OVR ERN PR. OVR THE WRN
HALF OF PR RAINFALL TOTALS WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS IN THE 1 TO
3 INCH RANGE. GUSTS TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE IN STRONG CONVECTION.
BERTHA MOVES QUICKLY NW OF THE AREA TONIGHT WITH SHOWERS AND WINDS
DIMINISHING QUICKLY AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THE HI-RES WRF NMM
SHOWS NOTHING AFTER 03Z SUN.
DRY WEATHER EXPECTED TO ESTABLISH QUICKLY ON SUN UNDER STRONG
SUBSIDENCE AND STRENGTHENING UPPER LEVEL RIDGE. OVERALL...VERY DRY
CONDITIONS EXPECTED MUCH OF NEXT WEEK.
&&
.AVIATION...GUSTS TO TROPICAL STORM FORCE LIKELY IN HEAVY
CONVECTION. WINDS SHIFT TO THE SOUTHEAST BY NOON AT MOST TAF
LOCATIONS. IFR CONDITIONS LIKELY IN HEAVY CONVECTION. WINDS
DIMINISH RAPIDLY AFTER SUNSET. VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED AFTER 03Z
SUN EVERYWHERE.
&&
.MARINE...SUSTAINED WINDS 25-30 KT WITH GUSTS TO 45 KT EXPECTED AS
BERTHA TRACKS ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS. SEAS BUILDING
9-11 FT AS SEEN ON BUOY 42060 SE OF ST. CROIX
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SJU 82 78 88 81 / 100 70 0 20
STT 80 79 89 81 / 100 70 0 20
&&
.SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
PR...TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL INTERIOR-CULEBRA-EASTERN
INTERIOR-MAYAGUEZ AND VICINITY-NORTH CENTRAL-NORTHEAST-
NORTHWEST-PONCE AND VICINITY-SAN JUAN AND VICINITY-
SOUTHEAST-SOUTHWEST-VIEQUES-WESTERN INTERIOR.
VI...TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR ST CROIX-ST. THOMAS/ST. JOHN/ADJACENT
ISLANDS.
COASTAL WATERS...
&&
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</html>2 tropical storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Wxflow station reported a wind gust of 55 mph in Buck Island south of Saint Thomas.
Wind gust of 62 knots at buoy 41051 located south of Saint Thomas.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in U.S. Virgin Islands in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in U.S. Virgin Islands, August 2014The 2014 hurricane season
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 537951, 537952.