The funds will help provide emergency supplies, food, shelter and other essential services to families and communities working to rebuild after the storm.
At first light on Wednesday, the coastal communities of southwestern Jamaica bore the devastation of being in the direct path of Hurricane Melissa.
The NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center captured video aboard its Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft, Kermit, as it was buffeted by winds near the storm's eye.
People across the northern Caribbean were digging out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa on Thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed.
Hurricane Melissa is grinding across eastern Cuba as a Category 2 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record.