Despite a quiet start and a lull during the peak, the season produced three Category 5 hurricanes. Most storms were steered away from the continental U.S., but Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica as ...

Hurricane Melissa has joined a list of only about a dozen other Category 5 hurricanes that have made landfall in the Atlantic. The deadly Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica's southwestern coast ...

Category 4, for example, includes winds between 114-137 knots. The Strongest Storms on Record Several well-known storms would fall into this proposed Category 6. Hurricane Wilma in 2005 remains the ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm. The hurricane is the strongest ever recorded in Jamaica's history, with winds reaching 185 mph. Forecasters warned of ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica around noon Tuesday with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph, the strongest storm to reach the island's shores in recorded history. Forecasters warned in dire ...