Winter Storm: Midwest Dumped with Snow, Death in Oklahoma (VIDEO)

The heartland's looking at getting more of the white fluffy stuff today. A storm already blamed for one death in Oklahoma is allegedly fixing to make it's way across the Midwest, according to a report from the National Weather service.

Severe weather is even expected in parts of eastern Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, where tornadoes are possible in addition to hail and winds. But much of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska saw heavy snow and ice by daybreak, including freezing rain reported in Arkansas according to CBSNews.com.

Kelly Sugden, a weather service meteorologist in Dodge City, Kan., said the storm was moving a bit slower than was previously forecast but that it was "starting to get back together."

"It's very active," Sugden said, noting the intensity of the snowfall, which was mixed with lightning and sleet showers.

Topeka, Kan., had a nice brush of snow following dawn, but in the town of Rozel, approximately 210 miles west, 6.5 inches of snow has already reportedly fallen according to USA Today.

According to Sugden, this could mean that Interstate 70 of Kansas could get as much as 13 inches of snow, which could potentially cause dangerous driving conditions.

In Oklahoma on Wednesday, roads were covered with a slushy mix of snow and ice that officials said caused a crash that killed an 18-year-old driver, Cody Alexander.

Alexander, of Alex, Okla., skidded in his pickup truck into oncoming traffic on State Highway 19 and was hit by a truck and killed, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. The other driver wasn't seriously injured.

In northern Arkansas, a school bus crashed Wednesday on a steep, snowy country road, leaving three students and the driver with minor injuries. Pope County Sheriff Aaron Duval said the bus slid off a road on Crow Mountain, nearly flipping before it was stopped by trees at the roadside.

The weather service warned that freezing rain could lead to a half-inch or more of ice accumulating Thursday in central and northern Arkansas, making travelling particularly dangerous.

And officials have stated that the storm could be the Midwest's worst since a two-day storm that began Feb. 1, 2011. That storm was blamed for about two dozen deaths and left hundreds of thousands without power, some for several days, which also created white-out conditions so intense that Interstate 70 was shut down across the entire state of Missouri.

Tim Chojnacki, spokesman for the Missouri Department of Transportation, said it planned to have salt trucks on the roads before the storm arrived in the Show-Me State in hopes that the precipitation would largely melt upon impact.

Want to check out the storm. See this video, courtesy of the Associated Press.