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Jul 3, 2008 10:20 am US/Eastern

Tropical Storm Bertha Forms Off African Coast

MIAMI (CBS) ― Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.

At 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, the center of the storm was located about 190 miles south-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.

The second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is moving toward the west-northwest at about 14 mph, and forecasters expect that to continue for the next couple of days.

Maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph. Some gradual strengthening is forecast during the next day or two.

It's still too early to say if or where Bertha will hit land.

The first named storm this year, Arthur, formed in the Atlantic the day before the season officially started June 1 and soaked the Yucatan Peninsula.

Forecasters are careful to point out that the storm will have no impact on weather in the U.S. for the Fourth of July weekend, according to CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami.

(© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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