NEW YORK — Fierce winds, snow, lightning, and hail stomped across the northeast quarter of the country Saturday and early Sunday, downing trees, damaging buildings, and cutting power to more than 200,000 homes across 13 states.

New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania were the hardest hit, with more than 35,000 homes in each state still dark as of 2 p.m. But people were without power from Maine to Indiana to North Carolina.

Gusts hit 64 miles an hour at Kennedy International Airport, and 3 inches of snow fell on White Plains, N.Y., according to the National Weather Service. The Statue of Liberty was closed for the day because of “high winds and unsafe harbor conditions,’’ the National Park Service said.

In Newark, a man, woman, and 6-year-old girl suffered minor injuries when a tree fell on a house on the city’s north side, said Captain Derek Glenn, a police spokesman. The woman got debris in her eye, he said.

Mariana Lo was half asleep around 7:30 a.m. Sunday at her house in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, when she heard a thud and felt the house shake.

“I thought, ‘I hope that’s not the tree falling down,’ ’’ she said.

A blossom-covered Callery pear tree limb nearly a foot across had smacked a chunk off her roof. Up the block on East 16th Street, another big pear limb had cracked off, crunching a car roof and blocking the street.

“Last night a cold front moved through, and that’s what created the storm,’’ said Carlie Buccola, a Weather Service meteorologist. “The wind is behind the front.’’

On East 16th Street in Brooklyn, the Fire Department came through about 10 a.m. and removed the felled limb blocking the street. But the truck drove right by Lo’s house as she and her housemate Lida Shao watched.

New York Times