Slasher,
You have to read what the actual clouds are telling you Sci -
it comes with experience in tropical lats. I wasn't there but
the cells on that vid appeared to me as moderate.
The way I read it, the Airbus reported 800m vis, the controller reported +TS. The 800m vis is a typical tropical CB unloading. The weather radar had a completely inappropriate tilt of +1, showing ground returns and would not have shown the cells properly.