San Salvador, El Salvador ? Hurricane Adrian fizzled over Honduras Friday after slamming into El Salvador’s coast and forcing the evacuation of 23,000 people, officials said.

The hurricane, first of the eastern Pacific season, caused relatively little damage and no reported deaths. It struck west of El Salvador’s capital overnight with maximum sustained winds of almost 75 mph.

By midday, the rapidly moving storm had largely broken up over neighboring Honduras, leaving scattered showers, some flooding, blocked roads and the loss of a few shacks.

Officials linked one death to the storm. Rodrigo Flores, deputy chief of civil defense in Nicaragua, said a person drowned Thursday night during flooding in that country’s capital, about 240 miles from the storm’s center.

In Honduras, “there were no deaths or damage to mourn,” said President Ricardo Maduro. “So we are fortunate.”

Salvadoran President Tony Saca told local Channel 12 that officials were evaluating the damage, but said activities were turning to normal after the concern caused by the first hurricane on record to directly hit El Salvador.

He said most of the 23,000 people evacuated in El Salvador had returned home. The Salvadoran-based airline TACA also resumed service.

A man watches as a worker cleans up a tree that fell when Hurricane Adrian struck Friday in the town of San Nicolas Lempa, El Salvador. Hurricane Adrian slammed into El Salvador's coast, cutting off power and forcing officials to close schools and evacuate some 14,000 people, but the storm quickly fell apart as it moved across Central America.

In Honduras, schools were closed as a precaution and many public workers were on a half-day schedule.

Officials in Guatemala and Nicaragua also reported some small-scale evacuations and flooding.

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch rolled across the region from the Caribbean side and killed at least 9,000 people.