In an incident that came to be known as Black Saturday, the U.S. military was placed under DEFCON 2 — just one step away from ...

As of 5 p.m. Monday, the National Hurricane Center found the hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. The winds were ...

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a major Category 4 hurricane, with the possibility of intensifying to a Category 5 storm ...

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported on Monday afternoon that Hurricane Melissa is sustaining maximum winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) with a ...

The hurricane center said in a 5 a.m. ET advisory on Oct. 27 Melissa was located about 130 miles south-southwest of Kingston, Jamaica with maximum sustained winds near 160 mph with higher gusts.

Hurricane Melissa has intensified into a Category 5 storm as it draws closer to Jamaica, where forecasters say it will ...

Hurricane Hunters were forced to cut short their reconnaissance mission into the Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Monday morning, ...

Melissa is forecast to hit Jamaica and southeastern Cuba as a powerful, major hurricane before maintaining hurricane strength ...

Unfortunately, we are about see yet another demonstration of nature at its worst, but hopefully we can manage to follow that ...