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Monarchs arrived in large numbers on the 14th across central Kansas on a line extending from Olathe in the east to Sharon Springs in the west . " The new finds by Mitchell include three in Colorado and one in central Kansas . Notice the absence of deep convection in this region at the earlier time , whereas severe thunderstorms have erupted over central Kansas by 0300 UTC ( in contrast to the storms in Missouri , which simply persisted throughout this period ) . " Apparently , if the trail , in fact , proceeded generally northward from Palo Duro Canyon , it would have led by a prehistoric passage across the Texas Panhandle and the Oklahoma Panhandle into central Kansas and the Quiviran province . First William Inge biographer Ralph F. Voss offers up a fiftieth anniversary review of the motion picture version of Kansas playwrite 's classic Picnic , which was largely filmed in central Kansas in 1955 .