The center of Hurricane Charlie skirted the southern coast of Jamaica on the night of Aug. 17, 1951, before it made landfall early the next morning as a strong Category 3 storm, bringing destructive winds to the entirety of the island, according to the NHC. The strongest winds at Kingston were measured at 110 mph.

Hurricane Melissa becomes Jamaica's most powerful storm in history, hitting Category 5 strength with 175 mph winds, deadly rain, and severe flooding.

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as the strongest storm — and only Category 5 hurricane — ever recorded in the nation’s history.

Hurricane Melissa is causing havoc in Jamaica as the Caribbean nation faces the strongest storm in its modern history. The hurricane is now a category four with wind speeds of 150mph (240km/h), after earlier lashing the coastline with winds of more than 185mph.

Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica early Tuesday afternoon as a Category 5 storm with 185 mile per hour winds, causing widespread flooding and knocking out power to more than half of the island’s population before it moved on to Cuba.

Hurricane Melissa is set to pummel Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago.

After deadly Hurricane Melissa, locals are sending money and trying to contact family and friends who’ve lost power, sustained property damage and likely lost their crops for this harvest.

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

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba as a Category 3 with winds of 120 mph hours after devastating Jamaica.

Communities across the Caribbean are reeling in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which ripped through Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola, the island comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this week. While officials said that damage assessments remained underway to determine the full scope of the destruction,

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba this morning as a slightly weaker Category 3 storm after blasting Jamaica with winds of up to 185mph - some of the strongest in its history