A tropical depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Bertha on Monday evening, leaving homeowners living in the Gulf preparing for extreme weather Tuesday morning.

Tropical Storm Bertha maintained its strength as conditions around the Florida Panhandle start to worsen, according to the National Hurricane Center's 1 p.m. update.

The biggest storm surge threat is 2-4 feet above normal from the mouth of the Mississippi River to the Mississippi-Alabama border, and 1-3 feet from the Miss-Ala border to the Okaloosa/Walton County l...