Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica as one of the most powerful cyclones ever recorded — with the United Nations declaring the disaster “the storm of the century.”

Melissa smashed into Jamaica’s southwestern coast just after 1 p.m. ET Tuesday as a Category 5 storm, with sustained winds blowing a devastating 185 mph.

It’s only the second Atlantic hurricane to ever make landfall with wind speeds that high — the other was 1935’s Labor Day Hurricane, which killed hundreds when it smashed into Florida.

The island nation of 2.8 million shut down all airports, and as many as 25,000 tourists were trapped.

And Melissa could be shaping up to be a catastrophe of similar proportions , with experts cautioning that a humanitarian disaster could unfold after the entire island nation was envelo

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