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Hurricane Melissa was hitting eastern Cuba hard early Wednesday after slamming Jamaica as a Category 5 storm. Maps show its forecast path.
Melissa's top winds of 185 mph are the second-strongest ever reported in an Atlantic hurricane. The storm ties for the strongest storm to hit land, along with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which hit the Florida Keys, and Hurricane Dorian in 2019, which hit the Bahamas.
Hurricane Melissa is so severe that even hurricane tracking weather planes have been forced to avoid the storm.
Melissa strengthened into a major hurricane and is expected to bring "catastrophic" flash flooding and landslides to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
A line of strong thunderstorms brought heavy rain and wind to the Fort Worth area Friday night, but no confirmed tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service Fort Worth.