Hurricane Melissa (2025)
Hurricane Melissa reached Category 5 in the North Atlantic between October 21, 2025 and November 1, 2025, with a lowest pressure of 892 mb, and made landfall. It killed 93 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Melissa, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2025 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- October 21, 2025 to November 1, 2025
- Peak strength
- Category 5, 165 kt (190 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 892 mb (26.34 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 34.3
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 440 nmi (815 km, 506 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)
- Overall size
- 280 nmi (519 km, 322 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 190 kt (219 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Identifier
- AL132025
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
93 direct deathsnone recorded in the United States
The season table in NHC’s report archive, final report. Direct deaths are those caused by the storm’s own wind, water or surge, anywhere in the world.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded
What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 1 states and marine areas, in the United States only. Property and crop damage as each office estimated it, which is not a national loss total.
Landfalls
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 17:25 | Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica, 19 km away | 18.1N 78.0W | 160 kt (184 mph) | 897 mb |
| Oct 29, 07:20 | Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba, 32 km away | 20.0N 76.2W | 100 kt (115 mph) | 954 mb |
| Oct 29, 22:15 | Coast unnamed here | 23.1N 75.0W | 80 kt (92 mph) | 972 mb |
| Oct 30, 02:00 | Coast unnamed here | 24.0N 74.5W | 80 kt (92 mph) | 970 mb |
Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.
In the United States
NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled August 2026.
- Deaths
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf of Mexico | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 marine thunderstorm wind.
Wind reports
The strongest winds National Weather Service offices recorded with this storm. An estimated figure is a forecaster’s judgment from the damage, not an instrument reading.
| Wind | How | Where | State | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 kt (39 mph) | Measured | 1.77 E of MARATHON | Gulf of Mexico | Oct 27, 02:51 |
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 06:00 | 14.0N 70.0W | 40 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 21, 12:00 | 14.0N 71.4W | 45 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 21, 18:00 | 14.0N 72.4W | 45 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 22, 00:00 | 14.1N 73.3W | 45 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 22, 06:00 | 14.2N 73.5W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 22, 12:00 | 14.3N 73.7W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 22, 18:00 | 14.3N 74.1W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 23, 00:00 | 14.3N 74.5W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 23, 06:00 | 14.7N 74.8W | 40 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 23, 12:00 | 15.2N 75.0W | 40 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 23, 18:00 | 15.5N 75.3W | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 24, 00:00 | 15.7N 75.5W | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 24, 06:00 | 15.8N 75.3W | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 24, 12:00 | 15.9N 75.1W | 45 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 24, 18:00 | 15.9N 74.8W | 50 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 25, 00:00 | 16.1N 74.7W | 55 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 25, 06:00 | 16.3N 74.7W | 60 kt | 986 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 25, 12:00 | 16.4N 74.9W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 25, 18:00 | 16.4N 75.3W | 75 kt | 976 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 26, 00:00 | 16.4N 75.7W | 90 kt | 971 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 26, 06:00 | 16.3N 76.0W | 105 kt | 958 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 26, 12:00 | 16.3N 76.4W | 115 kt | 952 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 26, 18:00 | 16.3N 76.9W | 120 kt | 944 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 27, 00:00 | 16.3N 77.3W | 125 kt | 934 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 27, 06:00 | 16.3N 77.7W | 135 kt | 923 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 27, 12:00 | 16.3N 78.0W | 145 kt | 912 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 27, 18:00 | 16.4N 78.3W | 155 kt | 906 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 28, 00:00 | 16.5N 78.6W | 155 kt | 909 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 28, 06:00 | 16.9N 78.4W | 155 kt | 900 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 28, 12:00 | 17.5N 78.1W | 165 kt | 892 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 28, 17:25 landfall | 18.1N 78.0W | 160 kt | 897 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 28, 18:00 | 18.2N 78.0W | 145 kt | 910 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 00:00 | 18.8N 77.1W | 105 kt | 953 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 06:00 | 19.7N 76.4W | 105 kt | 952 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 07:20 landfall | 20.0N 76.2W | 100 kt | 954 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 12:00 | 20.9N 75.8W | 85 kt | 968 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 18:00 | 22.1N 75.4W | 80 kt | 972 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 22:15 landfall | 23.1N 75.0W | 80 kt | 972 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 30, 00:00 | 23.5N 74.8W | 80 kt | 970 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 30, 02:00 landfall | 24.0N 74.5W | 80 kt | 970 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 30, 06:00 | 25.0N 73.8W | 85 kt | 968 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 30, 12:00 | 26.7N 72.7W | 90 kt | 965 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 30, 18:00 | 28.9N 70.9W | 85 kt | 967 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 31, 00:00 | 31.3N 68.7W | 80 kt | 970 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 31, 06:00 | 34.5N 65.5W | 75 kt | 972 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 31, 12:00 | 37.7N 62.1W | 75 kt | 972 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 31, 18:00 | 40.6N 58.9W | 70 kt | 972 mb | Extratropical |
| Nov 1, 00:00 | 43.7N 56.0W | 70 kt | 971 mb | Extratropical |
| Nov 1, 06:00 | 46.6N 51.3W | 65 kt | 968 mb | Extratropical |
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What this means
A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.
Sources
Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.