Category 2 Hurricane Melissa will produce damaging wind, storm surge and rain Damaging winds and storm surge expected through tonight No description found
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after striking Jamaica on Tuesday as the strongest Category 5 to ever hit the island.
As of the 11 p.m. update, Hurricane Melissa is a Category 1 storm with sustained winds of 100 mph, moving north-northeast at 21 mph.
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the Southeastern and Central Bahamas. Over the Southeast Bahamas, storm total rainfall of 5 to 10 inches are expected through today, which will result in areas of flash flooding. For the Turks and Caicos, rainfall totals of 1 to 3 inches are expected. Heavy rain may begin to affect Bermuda Thursday night.
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Storm surge of 5 to 8 ft above normally dry ground is possible in the southeastern Bahamas today, and 2 to 4 ft above normally dry ground is possible in the Turks and Caicos Islands today.
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