Springtime usually means severe weather season in the United States especially in the Great Plains and Midwest. During the month of May every year, these violent weather conditions reach their peak as what is left of the previous winter makes one last stand against the rapidly approaching summer. The result is a month with usually the most tornadoes of any each year in the area that stretches from Iowa to Texas that is known to many of us as Tornado Alley. Such was the case on just the second day of May on Friday when a fierce outbreak of twisters in the southern portion of the Great Plains from Missouri through Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas all felt the fury, and at least seven people died.