Click for home pageEvent (17) Cloud in convection column forms an anvil.

Air Observer or Field Observer

Photos: McRae. View of Billo Road Fire, 15:30 AEDST 11 December 2006. 149.07° -35.32° looking W.
The upper photo shows an anvil (incus) forming in a smoke plume, seen from a distance of 80km. The lower photo shows detail of mammatus forming on the underside of the anvil.

Situation Unit Officer

BoM Melbourne Weather Watch Radar image from 5:20pm AEDST 14 December 2006.
This image shows a major event underway. A large wildfire complex is burning in the Victorian high country, and a cold front is approaching from the west, as shown by the NW-SE oriented cloud band. Three anvils are seen in the radar, to the NE of Traralgon.

Implications

Phenomenon Urgency Indicated Red Flag Warning
Violent Pyro-convection 1 1) Plume-Driven Fire

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This material arises from work carried out by the HighFire Risk Project.
Material prepared by R. McRae September 2009.