St Helens maintained their fine start under caretaker management team Mike Rush and Keiron Cunningham to knock Warrington off the tip of Super League.
Three tries in quarter-hour set Saints on their way, Ade Gardner getting the 1st before Paul Wellens scored twice.
Francis Meli added another before Wire tries from Brett Hodgson and Joel Monaghan each side of half-time.
But fit-again Sia Soliola wrapped up victory before Ryan Atkins last-minute consolation for the house side.
Rush, together with club legend Cunningham, has now started his managerial career with successive wins against champions Leeds and league leaders Warrington. But, despite enjoying being on the helm, the St Helens-born development manager still says he's not all for making it a whole-time fixture.
Warrington had returned to the pinnacle last weekend with last Friday nights narrow 22-20 win at Wigan, 48 hours before Saints, of their first game following the sacking of Royce Simmons, stunned the Leeds redheads 46-6 at Langtree Park.
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But, in front of a fifteen,000 sell-out, the largest-ever crowd on the Halliwell Jones, it was Saints form that worked out the higher as they blitzed Warrington with a beautiful three-try burst contained in the opening quarter hour.
Lomax and Wellens created the gap for Gardner to attain within the right corner for the third straight game - in barely the third minute.
Then Wellens dived over himself on 11 minutes before stepping into again just four minutes later, Lomax kicking all three conversions.
Saints were even turning down chances to kick simple penalties in pursuit of more tries and, on 23 minutes, they got a fourth when Francis Meli galloped in on the left corner.
But, just once they had the possibility to take the sport out of Wires sight, Lomax missed that kick, and Sia Soliola had a try chalked off when he gave the impression to lose control grounding the ball over the road.
And Warrington finally found a response earlier than the break.
Hodgson dummied his far more than, kicking the goal to claw it back to 22-6. But, even then, Saints may have restored their 22-point advantage, just for Jon Wilkin to have a try disallowed by the video referee for a knock-on.
And Saints had their lead further lopped to 22-10 six minutes into the second one half when Joel Monaghan got in on the right corner.
But, after coming under sustained Warrington pressure, Soliola, back after missing two matches after being assualted on an evening out, bulldozed his excess of.
His try wrapped up victory 11 minutes from time before Atkins crossed late directly to make the margin of defeat look slightly kinder at the home side.
FROM THE DRESSING ROOM
Warrington coach Tony Smith:
"Our performances was basically the identical each week that's the frustration and a few of that came home to roost tonight.
"The manner we've been playing is giving freely penalties and giving for free the ball cheaply within the wrong parts of the sector and Saints are in a mood at present where they're happy to receive that and hurt you love Saints can, which they did.
"We made a fist for your time within the second half and, upon getting back to twelve points, if we had got another try maybe it might have put pressure on them, but if the clock starts to expire on you it forces you into more errors.
"some of our offloads were silly tonight in circumstances where we were just looking to force something that's letting us down. "We are going to have ups and downs in the course of the season and hopefully we can now get on an outstanding run and play some good footy."
St Helens caretaker coach Mike Rush
"It's a dream for an area lad to be doing what Im doing and that i would never say I dont enjoy doing it, however the club has an extended-term plan and my role is in development and to ensure that we always have a conveyer belt of latest players.
"i might like to tell everyone Im a genius but its not the case. We've some excellent senior players and extremely experienced players with hundreds of caps between them and so they realise they must roll up their sleeves and perform a little exertions throughout the week and get the rewards on the weekend.
"We're not doing anything differently. We have now a culture at St Helens like Barcelona and Ajax play football and we as a town and a club ought to play how we play and the senior players have really took to that.
"The likes of Josh Perry and James Roby really laid a platform for us and Sia Soliola also made a gigantic difference. We also gave Josh Jones a debut and that i give credit to the senior players like Paul Wellens and Jon Wilkin who offer guidance and togetherness so that they aren't left to fend for themselves."
FRIDAY NIGHT'S LINE-UPS
Warrington: Hodgson; Riley, Blythe, Atkins, J Monaghan; Briers, Myler; Morley, M Monaghan, Wood, Waterhouse, Grix, Cooper.
Replacements: Higham, Carvell, Bridge, Hill.
St Helens: Wellens; Gardner, Shenton, Jones, Meli; Hohaia, Lomax; Perry, Roby, Laffranchi, Soliola, Flannery, Wilkin.
Replacements: McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Clough, Flanagan, Magennis.
Attendance: 15,000.
Referee: Ben Thaler (Wakefield).
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