Melissa was a TS tropical cyclone that formed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2013. The storm reached maximum sustained winds of 102 km/h (55 kt) with a minimum central pressure of 980 hPa. Tracking across the Gulf of Mexicoin the North Atlantic basin (, it potentially affected the US Gulf Coast, Mexico and Cuba. The storm traveled from approximately 23.9°-54.7° to 41.6°-17.1°, crossing a range of 18 latitude and 38 longitude.