The simple fact is when the what for hits the fan they will gladly use what ever is at hand and prefer it directly from the horses mouth and not wait for filtering or delays.
I don't know how things work in your corner of the country, but up here in Southern New England when there is weather that the forecasters are looking for "ground truth" reports, the forecasters generally don't go to the amateur community at large.
Instead you get a NWS-vetted volunteer collecting reports from the Skywarn nets, taking reports, filtering out excess information (e.g., the "nothing to report" reports, or the one or two folks who like to go on and on and on and ... when all that's wanted is a windspeed, snow depth, a report of hail, etc.).
Now, if every amateur were trained to be brief, to present information in an expected format, etc. then maybe such filtering wouldn't be needed. But that's not something every amateur is interested or which can be expected of every operator given the wide range of interests in our hobby.