Bertha’s gone, but its moisture isn’t. Southeast remains on alert for flash floods | CNN

Bertha has fizzled out, but moisture linked to the former tropical storm is still fueling a flood threat that could linger into the weekend for some. Bertha dissipated over Texas on Thursday evening, where it had little impact except some locally heavy rain, including around Houston. 🌀 ⛈️ Get your storm forecast in the CNN Weather app The system could have more of an impact farther east, where a plume of its moisture is getting snagged on a slow-moving front. That front has now gone from slow-moving to stalled, locking in rainfall over parts of the Southeast. Thunderstorms ramped up Friday afternoon across northern Alabama and Georgia and dumped 1 to 2 inches of rain, prompting several flash flood warnings including in Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta. A Level 2 of 4 risk of flooding rainfall stretches across the coastal Carolinas to as far inland as Sumter, South Carolina and Fayetteville, North Carolina. The region needs rain to quench widespread severe to extreme drought, but if it falls too quickly — at rates of 2 inches or more per hour — it could overwhelm the dry ground. Rainfall totals could reach 4 inches or more in spots, which is the majority of a month’s wor