About Ben & StormSector

The StormSector site is a new media venue created by Ben Alonzo covering everything science, technology, and weather from professional eyes. In operation since 2001, the site features articles, info, news, product reviews, plus more focusing on the storm of the science and technology sector that drives our world. Thank you for visiting and for your continued support. Your positive feedback is appreciated. Be sure to check out the new Blog-News section and the StormSector YouTube channel (new).

Ben is a science and technology expert, meteorologist, and emergency operations professional active in a broad variety of industries. He has contributed to multiple corporate knowledge bases, worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, emergency operations, and weather forecasting industries. Ben is also a storm chaser with over ten years experience in chasing storms, live on-air reporting, and providing training material to the National Weather Service. His photos and videos have been featured on ABC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NOAA News, and NBC. You might have also seen clips of activities such as search and rescue missions as well as other fire, police, and ems events. He holds many licenses and certifications in multiple specialties including Information Technology, Emergency Operations, The Computing and Technology Industry Association, National Telecommunications Association, American Heart Association, American First Responders, American College of Health Professionals, Disaster Response Specialist, Emergency Management, Emergency Medical Service, National Registry Medical Specialists, Federal Communications Commission, and more. During his free time, Ben has spent nearly fourteen years volunteering with multiple organizations to serve the community.


Storm Chaser: Different Breed
Since 1996, Ben has observed and studied hundreds of severe thunderstorms across the United States. He has participated in the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service, Skywarn, WSI-Litton mobile weather research, and Project Funnel 97-98. Using cutting edge technology to chase, communicate, and alert the public of severe weather, his storm chasing has evolving purpose. For meteorologists, storm chasing gives way to the opportunity to exercise forecast skill, analysis of the atmosphere, and future prediction abilities. There's nothing like watching a forecast prediction come to life in front of your very eyes. One minute it's clear, 30 minutes later a damaging tornado levels a town.


Consulting, Training, Public Speaking, static_a/Press Pass, and Product Reviews Information
Ben is available for hire to provide science-technology consulting services including design, development, information technology support, and technical writing. The StormSector site also features science-technology related products and services. Product reviews are conducted regularly from a professional standpoint providing an overview of details for potential consumers (as unbiased as possible). StormSector is a great venue to share your product or service to targeted markets. If you have a related product or service and would like to have it featured, reviewed, or promoted on this site, please see the this section. We can feature your product or service as well as provide advertising space for sponsors/partners. News media (radio, television, print), agencies/business (press scene/venue access, and operation needs), and those interested in public speaking (schools, business) engagements can request more information media and press-pass section.

About The Website
StormSector was designed by technology expert Ben Alonzo, originally built in solid HTML in 2000. With the advancements in operating systems and web browsers, it became necessary to overhaul the site. Ben developed the site from scratch naming it StormSector. The name comes from his interest in severe weather (storm) and technology sector (a hard drive sector), hence StormSector. He designed the site using custom CSS, PHP, C++, JavaScript, and Visual Basic. Originally, the site was powered by twin Dell PowerEdge 2650 series servers until they were retired in 2008 replaced by a custom StormSector Thunderbolt 2i server. Ben designed, developed, as well as managed the site's layout, graphics, content, and server. Today, the site is optimized for FireFox users. If you are interested in web design, development, graphics, or scripting services, please see the business section.

All visitors must comply with the terms of service and disclaimer. Students and third parties that wish to use StormSector photos, audio, video, or text must cite their sources in any documents where StormSector property is utilized. Content is also available by request for a case basis fee. Unauthorized use of any StormSector content is prohibited by law.

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