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NOAA Lists Wilson Farm Tornado as EF2

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While doing some research on the tornado that struck the Wilson farm on September 18, 1986, I came across the following information directly from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website.

F2/EF2:
– September 18, 1986
Webster County. A tornado touched down six miles south of Inavale, NE and moved northeast for two miles. The tornado destroyed a barn, downed power lines and trees, and damaged several outbuildings.

Source:
September Tornadoes – South Central Nebraska and North Central Kansas
Data from January, 1950 – December 2010
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/gid/?n=septembercwatornadoes

Note:
The source states that the tornado touched down six miles south of Inavale, when in fact it was six miles north of Inavale.

Ed Payne Homestead

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Francis “Ed” Payne came in 1877 and entered a homestead and timberclaim in section 34, eventually owning all of that section. Ed Payne’s parents, Richard T. Payne, came in 1883, along with daughters Carrie and Pinkney, and son, Bruce Payne.

Source:
Webster County: Visions of the Past
By Mabel Cooper Skjelver
Published 1980
Page 63

Ed Payne Homestead 1886

Photograph courtesy of John Wilson, grandson of F.E. Payne

Ed Payne is holding his daughter, Wilella, with his mother, Mrs. Richard T. Payne in the background. His sister, Carrie, later Mrs. Noah Harvey, is in the foreground with her hand on a post. Two neighbor friends, Daisy Wilson, later Duval, and Della Wilson, later Bean, are in the foreground.

Source:
Webster County: Visions of the Past
By Mabel Cooper Skjelver
Published 1980
Page 69

Current location of Payne homestead pictured above. Also location of the original Otto Post Office, of which F.E. Payne was the first Postmaster.