(Whitewater Valley)--For the most part, the Whitewater Valley escaped the severe storms and tornados that roared through parts of the Midwest Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.  The strongest storms went through the southern parts of area at around midnight.  Tornado warnings were issued between midnight and one o’clock Thursday morning for parts of Franklin, Preble, and Butler County.  But those were radar-indicated tornados only with no confirmed touchdowns.  Heavy rain was also an issue.  Radar indicated more than four inches of rain fell overnight in those same tornado-warned areas.  There were no widespread power outages in the immediate area Thursday morning.