ON THIS DAY - April 3rd
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this series, Jeff and Andy look at historical events that took place on this day.
Today in history, one of the worst tornado outbreaks in American history hits Dixieland, Mr. Las Vegas is born, and a man that was the all time winningest coach for many years passes away.
This series is brought to you by the great Boss Shot Shells.
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| 0:00.0 | The I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:21.6 | I'm |
| 0:22.6 | I'm |
| 0:23.6 | I'm All right. |
| 0:43.3 | Boom! |
| 0:44.3 | And welcome to the Big Hunker podcast today. |
| 0:49.3 | Brought to you by Boss Shot Shels. |
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| 0:53.3 | I'm Jeff Stanfield with |
| 0:54.8 | the world famous Andy Shaver. Get those shells headed your way. Hunting scenes right around the corner. |
| 0:59.6 | It's turkey season right now. Okay, today is April 3rd. And April 3rd has got a couple of different |
| 1:05.4 | things that we're going to talk about. And the first one we're going to talk about is the event |
| 1:08.6 | that happened. In 1974, we had a super tornado outbreak like they're going to have again today, too. |
| 1:13.8 | That's right. |
| 1:14.5 | And so it's- Right in tornado alley. |
| 1:15.9 | Yep. |
| 1:16.4 | It was the most violent tornado outbreak ever recorded with 30 F-4-F-5 rated tornadoes confirmed. |
| 1:23.4 | There were 148 tornadoes confirmed in 13 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario. |
| 1:28.9 | In the United States, the tornadoes struck Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York. |
| 1:37.0 | We call that the Dixie land, but it went up further north also, but it was kind of the Dixie type area. |
| 1:43.4 | The outbreak extensively damaged approximately |
| 1:45.7 | 900 square miles along a total combined path and length of 2,600 miles. At one point, |
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