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Hurricane Melissa
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| Type of posting | Posting date(EST): | Summary | Downloads |
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| Custom Events | 11/3/2025 6:00:00 AM |
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| 29 October Update | 10/29/2025 11:00:00 AM |
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| 28 October Update | 10/28/2025 11:00:00 AM |
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| Similar Stochastic Events | 10/27/2025 10:00:00 AM |
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28 October Update | Summary
Posting Date: October 28, 2025, 11:00:00 AM
Hurricane Melissa continues to inch closer to Jamaica, with landfall imminent in the next few hours. As of 9:00 am EDT, Melissa was 50 miles south-southeast of Negril, Jamaica, with maximum 1-minute sustained wind of 180 mph and a minimum central pressure of 896 mb, per the National Hurricane Center. Melissa is moving north-northeast at 7 mph.
ALERT™ subscribers can download similar stochastic event (SSE) IDs for Hurricane Melissa from the Downloads tab of this posting on the ALERT website (note updated URL). Compatible with Touchstone® and Touchstone Re™, the SSEs were selected based on Melissa’s key meteorological parameters. They should only be used with exposures in Jamaica.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 30 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles. Earlier this morning local time, Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica, reported a sustained wind of 43 mph and a gust of 59 mph, while Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay reported a sustained wind of 38 mph and a gust of 54 mph.
We will provide an update on Wednesday morning, U.S. EDT, on Hurricane Melissa, potentially including additions to or refinement of today’s similar stochastic event selection if warranted. An industry loss estimate, custom event sets for Touchstone and Touchstone Re, and industry loss-based similar stochastic events will be produced for this event and will be available by early next week; we will follow up with specific details on timing later this week. In the meantime, please contact your Verisk representative with any questions about this event.
28 October Update | Downloads
Posting Date: October 28, 2025, 11:00:00 AM
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Similar Stochastic Event IDs
Note: These lists give event IDs taken from our stochastic catalog that have similar meterological characteristics as Hurricane Melissa on its approach to Jamaica.
| Product | File Type | Description | Download |
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| TOUCHSTONE / Re | Excel (xls) | Selected set of stochastic events, with Readme in Excel format |  |
| TOUCHSTONE / Re | CSV (csv) | Selected set of stochastic events, formatted for import into Touchstone/Re | |
