In my several decades of casual storm-watching, I had always understood that a tight, well-defined eye was indicative of an intense hurricane. The eye just fell apart about a hundred miles offshore, more rapidly than I recall ever seeing, even after landfall. It intensified very quickly and deteriorated very quickly. An odd storm, imho. The mountains there have been mentioned as being the cause, but it hadn’t even made landfall. Certain Caribbean islands are mountainous, and hurricanes are weakened typically when crossing them, but I don’t recall one with this sort of barometric pressure and windspeed being basically broken up and degraded into a tropical depression.
Thanks for pointing that out. My size of eye comment should have been about the size of hurricane force winds fields. Got lazy fingers. Cat 5 only extended out 15 miles. Small storm. Fastest wind speed, but not strongest storm. Pee Wee Herman can hit you pretty fast, but a slow punch from Rhonda Rousey will deck ya.