Creating Heat Waves-Premiere or After Effects? And How if Premiere?

I have a foreground statue still image composited against the live action of a freeway overpass. Around the lower part of the concrete freeway are heat waves. My composited foreground statue image doesn't look like it fits in as well with the freeway when the video plays because it lacks the distortion of the heat waves.
The distort effects in Premiere, so far, aren't holding any great promise. Does AE have heat wave like effects?
This has GOT to be something encountered in movies all the time.

Thanks, Colin. That works. I was initially working with Wave Warp, then as I changed the settings it went from okay to horrible and even going back to the settings that looked okay it still looked bad. After you posted I gave it a second look. It was a matter of clearing the effect, re-applying it, and then re-tweaking.
I'll have 3 layers.
#1.  The effect layer:   with warp effect and alpha channel masked to specific heat wave area. This layer is also roughly 20% opaque.
#2. The whole statue layer:  unaltered
#3. The video background.
I will experiment with the linear wipe wipe as well but this is looking pretty good. Thanks.

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