EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM (EAS)
The Emergency Alert System is the third generation public alerting system, supplanting both the Conelrad system and the Emergency Broadcast System. EAS has been in use since 1997. It is designed to give the public rapid, accurate information on a variety of situations from national-level emergencies to local weather warnings to child abductions. KQAL fully participates in EAS. KQAL's EAS equipment is set to auto-forward ALL weather watches and warnings, civil emergencies, and child abduction alerts for Winona County and those counties bordering Winona County: Wabasha, Olmstead, Fillmore, Houston, Buffalo, Trempeleau, and La Crosse. All national level alerts are forwarded as well. You will also hear a weekly test and a monthly test on the first Wednesday of the month. More information on EAS can obtained at the FCC website.KQAL monitors the following sources per the Minnesota EAS Statewide Plan and the Southeastern Minnesota Regional EAS Plan:
Monitor 1: KLSE-FM, 91.7, Minnesota Public Radio, Rochester
Monitor 2: KZSE-FM, 90.7, Minnesota Public Radio, Rochester
Monitor 3: KGG-95, 162.425, NOAA weather radio, Winona
Monitor 4: WNKI-511, 155.760, Southeastern Minnesota Emergency Broadcast
Network, Rochester
This page contains our EAS log for the current month. Previous months are
archived below.
January 2007
February 2007
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
December 2007
January 2008
February 2008
March 2008
April 2008
May 2008
June 2008
The following is our current EAS Log, updated hourly.