Photos capture damage from Iowa tornadoes that flattened town, left multiple deaths and injuries

The tornadoes that hit Iowa on Tuesday caused multiple deaths and injuries, and flattened a small town as states in the Plains and Midwest were also pelted with rain and thunderstorms.

“Lives have been lost, and many will be forever altered,” said Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater in a statement.

Greenfield, which is around 60 miles southwest of Des Moines, was completely flattened on Tuesday afternoon. Iowa State Police confirmed multiple deaths after the tornado occurred in the town of more than 2,000, the Des Moines Register, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported.

“There is basically nothing left,” Clel Baudler, a former Iowa state representative who lives near Greenfield, told CNN on Tuesday. “It went right through Greenfield.”