The Midwestern section of the United States tends to be the location for most of the nation's hurricanes. Due to this, the location from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, spanning over one thousand miles wide, is referred to as "tornado alley". The Joplin Tornado struck the community of Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011. The hurricane was an EF5 on the Fujita Scale, by which tornado intensity