What are signs of water damage to macbook pro?

Man this is embarassing... the one day I decide to open my window is the one day there's torrential rain here haha good thing my mb pro was generally out of direct contact with the incoming rain
Question is, I came home and there were signs of very very VERY little water on my desk and around my mb pro, probably around a couple of drops but you could tell it was from the rain and may have entered through the screen window behind it. There were a couple of drops next to my mb pro, and when I opened it, the screen had very very little water on it, just on the outer edges of the screen and near the trackpad, but I want to know if this water entered in any way. The computer works perfectly fine so far, I used disk utility to verify the disk and it says everything is good.
are there any other checks I can do to see if water touched it at all, because I have my doubts that the rain actually came into contact and it may just be humidity, but I would still like to know if in the future potential unseen damage from now will affect it later.
And I know water damage voids my warranty. I just want to know if there are any signs that it's even received water damage?
     -charges fine
     -screen's fine
     -everything runs as smooth as before
     -no signs that I can think of that mb pro suffered water damage

Liquid Spill
If you believe you’ve spilled anything (water, soda, trendy energy drink, etc.) on your Apple notebook, shut it down immediately, lest you continue short-circuiting your computer and thus blasting small holes through its components. Just because your computer works for a while after you’ve spilled liquid on it doesn’t mean you’re in the clear. Damage from liquid spills start out small and difficult to diagnose, and then over time spreads to become larger functional issues.
The best thing to do in this case is to take your Mac to an Apple-authorized service center. Diagnostic testing is FREE! But if you are feeling handy and are OK with voiding your AppleCare warranty (AppleCare does not cover accidental damage), you can clean your computer yourself. Unplug it, open it up, and disconnect the battery and all connections to the logic board. Then sit the open computer by a fan while gently scrubbing all sections of the logic board with cotton swabs and isopropyl alcohol. Clean both the top and bottom of the logic board if possible, then let the exposed MacBook dry in the path of the fan overnight before piecing everything back together and turning the computer back on. With any luck, the crisis will be over. http://www.macworld.com/article/2030013/advice-from-an-apple-tech-three-common-m ac-fixes.html

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