INDIANAPOLIS -- Thunderstorms streamed across the Ohio Valley on Wednesday after a night of tornadoes that destroyed numerous homes in central Indiana. No deaths were reported. The National Weather Service posted flash flood warnings Wednesday for parts of Indiana, saying as much as 4 inches of rain had fallen in 24 hours with an additional 1.5 inches possible. It issued severe thunderstorm warnings for parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania. One tornado hit the small Indiana community of Moscow in Rush County, reducing numerous homes to rubble and injuring at least five people, one critically, state police Sgt. John Bowling said. That twister late Tuesday also destroyed a 19th-century covered bridge and ripped the top floor and roof from an old brick schoolhouse. "All kinds of trees are down, into houses," Bowling said of the town about 35 miles southeast of Indianapolis. "I can see three houses right here in front of me that are just totally destroyed." Another tornado damaged several buildings at the Indiana National Guard's Camp Atterbury, about 25 miles south of Indianapolis. Two soldiers suffered minor injuries as they sought shelter, camp spokesman Capt. Greg Lundeberg said. More than 2,000 troops are at the camp, including a Marine unit training for deployment to Iraq, and the tornado skipped over buildings where they were sleeping, he said. "The path of the tornado actually jumped some billeting and basically the only damage was to unoccupied buildings," Lundeberg said. In Ohio, weather service meteorologist Andy Hatzos in Wilmington said countless funnel clouds had been reported by early Wednesday, but no tornadoes had been confirmed. Rain fell at a rate of 2 inches an hour in parts of Ohio, the weather service said. Flooding was reported in several communities around Dayton. About 24,000 Duke Energy customers in the Cincinnati area lost power but most were back on line Wednesday, the company said. WDTN-TV in Dayton, Ohio, was knocked off the air Tuesday night and couldn't broadcast its night newscast, news director Steve Diorio said. Parts of Illinois are cleaning up wind damage and flooding. The weather service said central Illinois got more than 3 inches of rain Tuesday, notably around Springfield and Decatur, causing minor flooding in the basements of some University of Illinois buildings. Farther west, flames and smoke were visible for miles Wednesday in Kansas City, Kan., as firefighters allowed a huge fire to burn itself out in a gasoline storage tank. Fire department Capt. Stan Castaneda said the fire started when the tank was hit by lightning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. No injuries were reported. The tank contained nearly 2.5 million gallons of unleaded gasoline.
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