A video compilation is being shared on social media worldwide that allegedly shows the destruction caused by hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. The video contains 16 clips featuring strong winds, heavy rain, and damage, accompanied by the caption: “Hurricane Melissa Cat 5 Kingston Jamaica with wind speed of 140mph”. In reality, the video is misleading and consists of edited footage from this and other hurricanes. This was reported by Full Fact.

Fact-checkers found that 15 of the 16 clips that supposedly show the aftermath of the hurricane in Kingston were filmed long before hurricane Melissa occurred or were recorded in other countries altogether. One clip could not be verified.

The first clip, showing strong winds tearing the roof off a building, actually comes from a 2020 video of hurricane Zeta, which hit Louisiana (USA). The second was filmed in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, and published in July 2024. The third clip, shot from a house doorway, has been on YouTube since 2019, while the fourth shows a tornado in Pennsylvania.

The fifth clip with a fallen tree documents a storm in Guadalajara, Mexico; the sixth comes from Russia; the seventh from Shanghai, where a typhoon struck last year. The twelfth clip shows a house during a sandstorm in the UAE, and the fourteenth depicts debris being blown through the streets of Madrid.

In addition, the tenth segment featuring a damaged Texaco gas station was actually filmed in Florida after hurricane Michael in 2018. The final, sixteenth clip, recorded in an underground parking garage, was published back in February of this year – well before hurricane Melissa appeared.