At a Glance

A 19-year-old woman died in a Kansas crash.More than 650 flights were canceled Wednesday morning.Detroit's airport remained closed Wednesday.In Wyoming, a 100-mile stretch of Interstate 80 was closed.

Winter Storm Indra continued to blast through the Midwest on Wednesday after forcing ground stops at several airports, closing large stretches of interstates and causing a fatal crash in Kansas.

Ashlen Leigh Lemon, 19, of Junction City, Kansas, died Tuesday in along on an icy Interstate 70, Fox4KC reported. Lemon was traveling westbound when she lost control of her car, crashed into the median and struck a guardrail. She was transported to an area hospital, where she died a short time later.

The incident prompted Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Ken Gardner to issue an emotional plea via Twitter asking in dangerous weather conditions.

As the storm barreled into the Upper Midwest on Wednesday, schools in southern and eastern Wisconsin were closed, including the districts of Dodgeland, Fort Atkinson, East Troy, Fond du Lac and Waupun, the Associated Press reports. Schools in Michigan, including Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College, were also closed Wednesday.

Chicago's Tuesday morning due to snow and ice. Detroit Metropolitan Airport also shut down Tuesday night around 8 p.m. and remained closed until early Wednesday. Airport officials said mixed precipitation ahead of the snow diluted de-icing chemicals, causing them to become ineffective.

More than 950 flights had already been canceled Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, , according to FlightAware.

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Fifty-one passengers had to be taken from Delta Connection plane Tuesday evening at the Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport in Indiana after the plane slid while taxiing into a snowbank. No one was injured and the flight departed early Wednesday, arriving safely in Atlanta, the AP reports.

In Wyoming, a , according to the Wyoming Department of Transportation. The closure was put in place around 9:30 a.m. but reopened later in the day.

Both directions of Interstate 70 in Colorado were closed Tuesday morning but was later reopened, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.

The Denver Police Department reported that it Tuesday morning.

Winter Storm Indra will continue to spread a wintry mess of snow and ice from the Midwest into the East through Thursday.

Tractor-trailers are stacked up along the shoulder of eastbound Interstate 70 near the Airpark road exit Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in Aurora, Colo. Winter Storm Indra is packing high winds, which has forced the closure of the interstate east from Denver to the state's border with Kansas because of drifting snow and left travelers stranded along the corridor. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)