Sure, we have spotters here, and I've seen the classes advertised to become one.

I kind of figured that you all had a designated location to look out from for a specific area, but that's only a guess. Now I imagine that you can be about anywhere and report if needed or activated.

Since you have internet, maybe my little app would be of use to you too then when you're mobile. It really should be at least a bit faster than the standard NOAA radar web page

NOAA has a very bare bones mobile web app. It has a national radar view that I might incorporate into my app. You can find it here:

http://mobile.weather.gov/

The small images are pretty much worthless for old eyes like mine, but the hi-res images are the same as the ones I'm using.

It's really cool that they make them available, and they've got great resources on how to use them and how to interpret the radar images themselves.

Once I found this page:

http://forecast.weather.gov/jetstream/doppler/ridge_download.htm

I had to start coding my own app. All that cool stuff, it's like picking cherries