Hurricane Melissa set records on it's way to impacting Jamaica, one was the largest wind gust ever recorded within a ...

Hurricane Melissa flooded southwestern Haiti before slamming into Jamaica as a Cat 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of 185 ...

As the powerful storm prepared to hit Jamaica in late October, a probe launched out of the belly of a Hurricane Hunters ...

Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research have verified the 252 mph gust measured in the eye of Hurricane ...

A NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft measured a 252-mile-per-hour gust at the ocean surface as the monster storm approached ...

ATLANTA — Hurricane Melissa shattered records as it approached Jamaica last month. A dropsonde weather instrument from a NOAA ...

While the new measurement sets a global record for dropsondes, it does not surpass the strongest verified surface wind. That distinction remains with Cyclone Olivia, which produced a 253 mph gust on ...

The previous fastest wind gust recorded by a dropsonde was in 2010, when Typhoon Megi unleashed a 248 mile per hour blast ...