ALBAWABA - Strong tornadoes tore through Iowa on Tuesday, killing five and injuring at least 35, with one tornado tearing through the town of Greenfield, according to officials.
On Wednesday, the Iowa Department of Public Safety said that 4 people have reportedly lost their lives in the Greenfield alone. Officials refrained from releasing the identities of those killed in the tornado, as their families are still in the process of being notified.
Following the authorities' earlier announcement that a woman in a car had been killed by a twister about 40 kilometers from Greenfield, the data provided on Wednesday increased the total number of deaths to five.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety announced on Wednesday that there is a good chance that there have been further injuries.
In the town of 2,000 people, located around 88.5 km southwest of Des Moines, the Greenfield tornado destroyed a large area of homes, shattered trees, and crumpled cars. Several miles outside of the town, enormous wind turbines that produced electricity were also ripped apart and crushed by the tornado.
Later Tuesday, storms hit parts of Illinois and Wisconsin, knocking out electricity for tens of thousands of people in both states.
The severe weather moved south on Wednesday, and the National Weather Service issued tornado and flash flood warnings in Texas, with parts of the state, including Dallas, under a tornado watch.
Jon Porter, chief meteorologist at AccuWeather, pointed out that the tornado that wrecked parts of Greenfield brought to life the worst-case scenario in Iowa that weather forecasters had dreaded.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, stated that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator would travel to Iowa on Thursday and that the White House was in contact with state and local leaders.
