A civil authority has issued A REQUIRED WEEKLY TEST for the following counties or areas: Minnesota; at 2:41 PM on AUG 19, 2026 Effective until 2:56 PM. Message from MN HSEM. This is a coordinated weekly test of the broadcast stations in your area. If this had been an actual emergency, official messages would have followed the alert tone. This concludes a test of the Emergency Alert System. This is only a test.