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Melissa Reaches Hurricane Strength

Storm Melissa reaches hurricane strength, threatening catastrophic flooding in northern Caribbean

U.S. forecasters issued a hurricane warning for Jamaica Saturday as Storm Melissa reached hurricane strength, threatening catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean.

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Melissa Strengthens into a Hurricane as It Lashes the Caribbean With Heavy Rain

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Hurricane Melissa forecast to strengthen to Category 5 storm. See path.

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Tropical Storm Melissa: Follow the storm, possible impacts in Brevard

Forecasters are monitoring Tropical Storm Melissa, which is expected to become a “major” hurricane by the end of the weekend.

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Tropical Storm Melissa Lumbers Through the Caribbean, Killing an Elderly Man in Haiti

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How strong will Tropical Storm Melissa get and where will it go? See the timeline

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Hurricane Melissa forms, could reach Category 5, heads toward Jamaica. Florida update

Catastrophic flash flooding and landslides are expected for Jamaica and Haiti, and possible for the Dominican Republic.

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Tropical Storm Melissa: Follow the storm, possible impacts in Sarasota

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Tropical Storm Melissa Trudges Through Caribbean as Forecasters Warn It Will Quickly Intensify

Hurricane Melissa strengthens into a Category 1 storm in the Caribbean. Maps show its forecast path.

Melissa is expected to strengthen from a tropical storm into a major hurricane and bring "catastrophic" flash flooding and landslides to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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Tropical Storm Melissa stationary in the Caribbean as 4 deaths reported and huge rains expected

Tropical Storm Melissa is nearly stationary in the central Caribbean, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane.

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Tropical update: Conditions ripe for Tropical Storm Melissa to rapidly intensify

Melissa is currently the only active tropical system in the Atlantic basin. As of Friday night, the storm remains nearly stationary, drifting north at just 2 mph. Maximum sustained winds are around 65 mph—just below the 75 mph threshold needed to reach Category 1 hurricane status.

Jamaica under hurricane warning as Melissa barely moves. Haiti could see ‘extensive’ damage

Haiti is expected to see catastrophic flash floods and landslides early next week causing “extensive infrastructural damage and potentially prolonged isolation of communities.” The southwestern peninsula of Haiti, from the border of the Dominican Republic to Port-au-Prince, was placed under a hurricane watch and a tropical-storm warning.