NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) - Melissa became a Category 1 Hurricane on Saturday and the National Hurricane Center expects it to become a major hurricane on Sunday.

Hurricane Melissa is 130-miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica and 250-miles west-southwest of Port Au Prince, Haiti with maximum sustained winds of 90-mph.

Melissa has hurricane-force winds that extend outward from the center up to 15-miles and tropical-storm-force winds extending outward up to 160-miles.

There's currently a Hurricane Warning in effect for Jamaica, a Hurricane Watch for Haiti and Cuba along with a Tropical Storm Warning for parts of Haiti.

The National Hurricane Center says that "Melissa is moving toward the west slowly near 3-mph with a slow westward motion expected [Saturday evening] through the end of the weekend

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