Multiple fatalities and some injuries have been reported in the small city of Greenfield, Iowa – about 50 miles southwest of Des Moines – after a tornado carved a devastating path through the community Tuesday evening, Iowa State Patrol spokesperson Sgt.
“There is basically nothing left,” Clel Baudler, a former Iowa state representative who lives a half mile from Greenfield, told CNN on Tuesday.
Power outages across Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois left nearly 200,000 homes and businesses in the dark as of Tuesday night, according to PowerOutage.us.
A few tornadoes could strike from Texas to Arkansas, but hail and powerful winds are possible anywhere along the storms’ path.
Heaps of rubble blanket Greenfield, Iowa, after a tornado touched down Tuesday.
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