1. A system, comprising: memory for storing location data indicative of locations of a plurality of user computing devices; a data manager configured to display a map; an input interface for receiving user inputs for selecting a region of the map corresponding to a geographic region affected by or to be affected by a weather event and for defining a textual message to be communicated to users within the geographic region; and messaging logic configured to track locations of the user computing devices and to update the location data as the locations of the user computing devices change, the messaging logic configured to determine which of the user computing devices are at locations corresponding to the selected region of the map, the messaging logic further configured to transmit the textual message to at least one of the user computing devices determined to be at a location corresponding to the selected region of the map in response to the user inputs, wherein the textual message is for requesting at least one user to capture at least one image associated with the weather event within the geographic region.