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6. 2 pm update (holding steady pending recon completion)

Sun Oct 26, 2025, 01:58 PM

Sunday

Hurricane Melissa Intermediate Advisory Number 21A
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL132025
200 PM EDT Sun Oct 26 2025

...AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INVESTIGATING MAJOR
HURRICANE MELISSA...
...LIFE-THREATENING AND CATASTROPHIC FLASH FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES
EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF JAMAICA AND SOUTHERN HISPANIOLA THROUGH
MIDWEEK...

SUMMARY OF 200 PM EDT...1800 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...16.4N 76.9W
ABOUT 110 MI...180 KM S OF KINGSTON JAMAICA
ABOUT 285 MI...460 KM SSW OF GUANTANAMO CUBA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...140 MPH...220 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...W OR 270 DEGREES AT 5 MPH...7 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...946 MB...27.94 INCHES

WATCHES AND WARNINGS
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CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:

None.
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