The program is made up of thousands of who volunteers attend regular training and then spend hours scanning the skies of their communities looking for signs of meteorological mayhem.
Most volunteers are just regular folks, some with an avid interest in the weather and many without.
Some are law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMS or Emergency Management personnel. All share a sense of responibility to their neighbors. Since the First Tornado Forecasts of 1948 . However, the system can not detect every tornado nor was it designed to do so. The WCM acts as the liason between the forecast office and local emergency management and spotters.